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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: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>, Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>, Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>, Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>, Wolfgang Walther <walther@technowledgy.de>, Devrim Gündüz <devrim@gunduz.org>
Date: 2025-04-23T16:07:52Z
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 Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 8:39 AM Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org> wrote:
> This will cause problems when programs are running while packages are
> updated on disk. That program then tries to dlopen 18-0.so when there
> is already 18-1.so installed. Relevant when the first oauth connection
> is made way after startup.

Ugh, good point. This hazard applies to the previous suggestion of
pkglibdir, too, but in that case it would have been silent...

> This is trading one problem for another, but within-a-major ABI
> changes should be much rarer than normal minor updates with
> applications restarting only later.

But the consequences are much worse for a silent ABI mismatch. Imagine
if libpq-oauth examines the wrong pointer inside PGconn for a
security-critical check.

> Alternatively, there could be a dedicated SONAME for the plugin that
> only changes when necessary, but perhaps the simple "18.so" solution
> is good enough.

I don't think SONAME helps us, does it? We're not using it in dlopen().

We could all agree to bump the second number in the filename whenever
there's an internal ABI change. That works from a technical
perspective, but it's hard to test and enforce and... just not forget.
Or, I may still be able to thread the needle with a fuller lookup
table, and remove the dependency on libpq-int.h; it's just not going
to be incredibly pretty. Thinking...

Thanks so much for your continued review!

--Jacob