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From: Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: viewing source code
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:04:13 -0500
Message-ID: <20071220210412.GX4924@crankycanuck.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1A6E6D554222284AB25ABE3229A92762112A4B@nrtexcus702.int.asurion.com>
References: <1A6E6D554222284AB25ABE3229A92762112A4B@nrtexcus702.int.asurion.com>

On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 01:45:08PM -0600, Roberts, Jon wrote:
> Businesses use databases like crazy.  Non-technical people write their own
> code to analyze data.  The stuff they write many times is as valuable as the
> data itself and should be protected like the data.  They don't need or want
> many times to go through a middle tier to analyze data or through the hassle
> to obfuscate the code.  

I'm not opposed to this goal, I should note.  I just think that any proposal
that is going to go anywhere may need to be better than the one you seem to
have made.

I think column-level permissions is probably something that is needed.

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