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http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Todo#Features_We_Do_Not_Want

The open source dweeb in me agrees with the community’s philosophies that PostgreSQL’s optimizer should be made smarter and the obfuscation is not 100% effective, but both features fill a business need. For EDB*Wrap, the business need is to make it difficult for people to see the source code of a stored procedure when it is sent as a plain text file.

So while it is not 100% effective, when an ISV shipping their stored procedure code encounters a malicious user who has the ability to turn:

$__EDBwrapped__$
UTF8
d86XAumhB/6bQTdJStisuVDG2FE3+vUz2Bjq2neAax7iG8Vg2++x1stc0gN3pCDO1+jnOc7orT9X
4sepJrX8Vn2nEf58u+V6f5UWLj43i2hDCO9iPyEa08jA8CuTFq0dL+B0DK5ymSL2MIrRMOz/eGn0
XEaU9TgaraXbIJhlNtCf
$__EDBwrapped__$

Into:
CREATE FUNCTION foo() RETURNS integer AS $$
BEGIN
RETURN 1;
END;
$$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;

That same user can also decompile their main application and their whole application becomes “open source” to the bad guy. In the commercial world, it is hard to hold back features customers are requesting because of a corner case you can manage through other means.

This customer-driven release continues to build beyond the features and performance found in the community version of PostgreSQL while decreasing the risk and cost in time, money, and re-training to switch to an affordable open source database technology. The new capabilities focus on deeper Oracle compatibility, even easier migrations from other databases, and performance and scalability unmatched by any PostgreSQL database. Additionally, there are multiple component maintenance upgrades and over 200 minor fixes and enhancements.

What’s in it for you? Some of the release highlights include:

• Deeper Oracle support for objects, packages, transaction management, and migration reduces the risk and cost of adopting open source database technology by allowing you to better leverage your investment in Oracle skills and lower the cost of migrating and adopting a world class open source database built on PostgreSQL
• Infinite Cache improves performance up to 5 times faster than the PostgreSQL community version while reducing costs for massive scalability across your existing commodity hardware footprint
• LDAP and PAM Security support allow easier application customization while EDB*Wrap protects sensitive or proprietary code
• New / updated documentation

Download 8.3 R2 now for Linux, Windows or Mac. For all the details inside the release, see the Release Notes at the same link above or check out the documentation.

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