Re: Protecting stored procedures

On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 12:45 -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 09:31:20AM -0500, Michael Gould wrote:
> > We wouldn't make any of the system users a superuser in Postgres and in my
> > 20+ years experience in the industry we provide software for, the
> > possibility of having any users of the system that are able to hack or even
> > understand what they have if they were able to is slim.
>
> So you aren't afraid your users are going to take this code, but you
> want to put (relatively meaningless) protection in place anyway?
>
> I guess maybe the security definer functions might help you.

As someone mentioned previously, there is also pl/secure. It certainly
isn't perfect but it will deal with the low hanging fruit.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake


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