From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Trevor Talbot <quension@gmail.com>
Cc: Roberts, Jon <Jon.Roberts@asurion.com>
Cc: Kris Jurka <books@ejurka.com>
Cc: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>
Cc: Jonah H. Harris <jonah.harris@gmail.com>
Cc: Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: viewing source code
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:07:39 -0300
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Joshua D. Drake escribió:
> I don't know that it needs to be that extensive. I noted elsewhere in
> the thread the idea of a plpgsql_s. I think that is an interesting
> idea. I just don't think it needs to be incorporated into
> postgresql-core.
I don't think that makes any kind of sense. Hiding prosrc should happen
on a entirely different level from the language on which the function is
written. It's a completely orthogonal decision. Besides, you probably
don't want prosrc to be encrypted -- just not accesible to everyone, and
it doesn't make sense to have a different _language_ to do that.
Also, having an encrypted source code means there must be a decryption
key somewhere, which is a pain on itself. And if you expose the crypted
prosrc, you are exposing to brute force attacks (to which you are not if
prosrc is hidden).
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
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