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Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 04:42:19PM +0200, Hans-Juergen Schoenig wrote:
>
>> the problem here is that vendors of appliances don't want people to
>> spider their codes. this is a fact - it is not the idea of open
>> source to do so but bloody reality. in addition to that people are
>> not willing to code everything in C just to hide.
>
> Well, then, they're out of luck.
This whole thread can be summed up as: plpgsql is an interpretive
language, not a compiled on.
You can and do see the source, just like perl, ruby, python, bash etc...
If you don't like it, don't use it and use C instead.
:)
Keep in mind that the obfuscation techniques that can be used by python
and perl are all reversible.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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