Jonathan Bond-Caron escribió: > For me, "Oracle stored procedures can be encrypted." is a very real and > valuable argument. > It would certainly be a valuable feature in pgsql (in the enterprise space). Fortunately for you, PostgreSQL is extensible, even in the procedural languages area. This means that if you want to create a new PL that takes the encrypted code, decrypts it, and passes it to plpgsql, you can do it. It shouldn't be very difficult. There was some talk about doing this as a pgfoundry project, but no one stepped up to actually doing the work. Of course, as pointed out by Scott Marlowe, any half-decent hacker will be able to get the actual code out just like he would on encrypted PL/SQL, but the barrier for stealing the code got considerably higher at that point. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
