Re: protecting prosrc (was Re: [GENERAL] USAGE on schema allowed by

> > It wouldn't be terribly difficult to encrypt prosrc with 3des (or maybe
aes)
> > using the owner's passwd from pg_shadow. We would need a new bool column
in
> > pg_proc (proisencrypted?) and some logic in fmgr.c.
> >
> > Is there sufficient interest to justify the effort?
> >
>
> I think this would be a good idea, though there becomes a question of
> what type of performance hit comes into play when doing this. I suppose
> if you have an option whether to encrypt it or not that would help.  One
> other thing is that it needs to be "decryptable" by owners and
> superusers.

Surely a more generic column privileges implementation would be better?

Chris