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Re: Periodic authorization expiration checks using GoAway message

Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com> — 2025-12-16T20:22:11Z

On Tue, Dec 16, 2025 at 1:15 AM Ajit Awekar <ajitpostgres@gmail.com> wrote:
> >What I meant that we can already implement a background process that
> >watches active (oauth) connections, and either:
>
> >Revalidates tokens periodically using introspection APIs
>
> +1 as this will  offload validation logic to a dedicated background process.

Is the hope that batching validation will make things more efficient,
or is there another goal to using a background process? You still have
to communicate back to each backend.

--Jacob