On 7/4/06, Rodrigo De Leon <rdeleonp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I was wondering if there's a mechanism (or if not, a workaround) to
> obfuscate server code (PL/PgSQL), a la Oracle's PL/SQL Wrap Utility:
No, there is no such utility for PostgreSQL. And, even if there were,
it wouldn't actually stop someone from reverse engineering it quite
easily as the source code to PL/pgSQL itself is readily available.
I don't see how PostgreSQL being open source will stop obfuscation of the PL/pgSQL from being possible. Sure you can look at the code for a stored procedure but the point of obfuscation is to make it hard to understand, not impossible to see. A very long stored procedure could be quite difficult to read if it were obfuscated well - that would not stop someone from being able to understand what you did, just make it so hard that it would be unlikely that it is worth the effort.
-Aaron
