alt Hacker NewsYou do not need stored procedures or functions to prevent SQL injection. Any Postgres client library from the last decade or two supports parametrized queries, and that's enough. Odds are, most people will use an ORM anyway, which also avoids SQL injection.
In most situations I'd try to avoid using stored procedures. Unless you're all in on them, the effect will be that it hides some logic from the developers since it is not in the main part of the codebase.
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traceroute66 • today at 4:04 PM
> people will use an ORM anyway
Even worse !
Don't get me started on people who treat databases like a black-box dumping ground and insist they must have "portable schemas".
> it hides some logic from the developers
I do not buy this argument.
Its called a documented function.
The developers know the function's inputs and outputs and what it does.
That's all they should need to know.
Its no different to functions in the libraries of whatever programming language you are using.
Devs just do their coding based off the function signature and docs. They know what goes in, what comes out and what the function does.
How many developers do you know who've gone back and read the source code of the function ? Assuming its open-source anyway and not a OS API.