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Re: [PoC] Federated Authn/z with OAUTHBEARER

Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>

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From: Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-02-24T17:39:57Z
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 Sun, Feb 23, 2025 at 8:49 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> IMO, the set of cases where it's legitimate to mark individual struct
> fields as const is negligibly small, and this doesn't seem to be one
> of them.  It's not obvious to me where/how PGoauthBearerRequest
> structs are supposed to be constructed, but I find it hard to believe
> that they will all spring full-grown from the forehead of Zeus.
> Nonetheless, this declaration requires exactly that.

As read-only inputs to the client API, they're not meant to be changed
for the lifetime of the struct (and the lifetime of the client flow).
The only place to initialize such a struct is directly above this
code.

> (I'm kind of surprised that we're not getting similar bleats from
> any buildfarm animals, but so far I don't see any.)

Is there a reason for compilers to complain? memcpy's the way I know
of to put a const-member struct on the heap, but maybe there are other
ways that don't annoy Coverity?

If the cost of this warning is too high, removing the const
declarations isn't the end of the world. But we use unconstify and
other type-punning copies in so many other places that this didn't
seem all that bad for the goal of helping out the client writer.

> BTW, as another nitpicky style matter: why do PGoauthBearerRequest
> etc. spell their struct tag names differently from their typedef names
> (that is, with/without an underscore)?  That is not our project style
> anywhere else, and I'm failing to detect a good reason to do it here.

This underscore pattern was copied directly from PQconninfoOption and
PQprintOpt.

Thanks,
--Jacob