Re: Securing stored procedures and triggers

["Albe Laurenz" <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>]

mgould wrote:
> We are currently migrating from Sybase's ASA 9/10 to PostGres 
> 8.2.4.  One of the features that is really nice in ASA is the 
> ability to add the attribute hidden to a Create procedure, 
> Create function and Create trigger.  Essentially what this 
> does is encrypt the code so that if anyone or any utility 
> gets into the database they cannot see any of the actual 
> code.  This is a great feature for protecting intellectual 
> processing techniques.  I don't know if there is anyway to do 
> this in PostGres.  Before the hidden feature was added, we 
> had a competitor  steal some of our stored procedure 
> processing code.  Is there anyway to protect this from 
> happening in PostGres?

Not with PL/pgSQL.

That's probably not what you want, but you can write
stored procedures in C and ship the shared library.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe