Re: [PoC] Federated Authn/z with OAUTHBEARER

Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>

From: Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Wolfgang Walther <walther@technowledgy.de>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>, Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
Date: 2025-04-08T17:00:56Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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  1. meson: Fix install-quiet after clean

  2. oauth: Run Autoconf tests with correct compiler flags

  3. Link libpq with libdl if the platform needs that.

  4. Doc: correct spelling of meson switch.

  5. oauth: Correct SSL dependency for libpq-oauth.a

  6. oauth: Fix Autoconf build on macOS

  7. oauth: Move the builtin flow into a separate module

  8. Remove a stray "pgrminclude" annotation

  9. oauth: Simplify copy of PGoauthBearerRequest

  10. oauth: Improve validator docs on interruptibility

  11. oauth: Disallow synchronous DNS in libcurl

  12. oauth: Fix postcondition for set_timer on macOS

  13. oauth: Use IPv4-only issuer in oauth_validator tests

  14. Work around OAuth/EVFILT_TIMER quirk on NetBSD.

  15. oauth: Fix incorrect const markers in struct

  16. Add missing entry to oauth_validator test .gitignore

  17. cirrus: Temporarily fix libcurl link error

  18. Add support for OAUTHBEARER SASL mechanism

  19. libpq: Handle asynchronous actions during SASL

  20. require_auth: prepare for multiple SASL mechanisms

  21. Move PG_MAX_AUTH_TOKEN_LENGTH to libpq/auth.h

  22. Make SASL max message length configurable

  23. jsonapi: fully initialize dummy lexer

  24. common/jsonapi: support libpq as a client

  25. Remove fe_memutils from libpgcommon_shlib

  26. Revert ECPG's use of pnstrdup()

  27. Explicitly require password for SCRAM exchange

  28. Refactor SASL exchange to return tri-state status

On Tue, Apr 8, 2025 at 9:49 AM Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr  8, 2025 at 09:43:01AM -0700, Jacob Champion wrote:
> > By adding the new .so to a different package. For example, RPM specs
> > would just let you say "hey, this .so I just built doesn't go into the
> > main client package, it goes into an add-on that depends on the client
> > package." It's the same way separate client and server packages get
> > generated from the same single build of Postgres.
>
> Do we have any idea how many packagers are interested in doing this?

I'm not sure how to answer this. The primary drivers from the dev side
are you and Tom, I think. Christoph seems to be on board with a split
as long as we don't make his life harder. Wolfgang appears to be a
packager who would not make use of a split (and in fact cannot).

--Jacob