[rt-users] Leaking sensitive information

Vivek Khera khera at kcilink.com
Mon Oct 20 11:40:23 EDT 2003


>>>>> "RS" == Robert Spier <rspier at pobox.com> writes:

RS> (mysql solution.. postgres solution is equivalent, but looks different.)

in postgres, you can alter the corresponding sequence's increment
value.  Choose some nice prime number and you should obfuscate it
nicely, unless someone is creating a *lot* of tickets simultaneously.

I wonder if you could set up a trigger to alter the sequence increment
after every insert into the table... hmmm....

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