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Re: [PoC] Federated Authn/z with OAUTHBEARER

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

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From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: Jacob Champion <pchampion@vmware.com>
Cc: "zyu@yugabyte.com" <zyu@yugabyte.com>, "hlinnaka@iki.fi" <hlinnaka@iki.fi>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-08-27T02:32:32Z
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 Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 04:13:08PM +0000, Jacob Champion wrote:
> Do you mean heap-based? i.e. destroyJsonLexContext() does an
> unnecessary copy before free? Yeah, in that case it's not super useful,
> but I think I'd want some evidence that the performance hit matters
> before optimizing it.

As an authentication code path, the impact is minimal and my take on
that would be to keep the code simple.  Now if you'd really wish to
stress that without relying on the backend, one simple way is to use
pgbench -C -n with a mostly-empty script (one meta-command) coupled
with some profiling.
--
Michael