Re: [PoC] Federated Authn/z with OAUTHBEARER

Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
To: Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Cc: Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-02-12T14:55:23Z
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 08.02.25 02:56, Jacob Champion wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 7, 2025 at 12:12 PM Daniel Gustafsson<daniel@yesql.se> wrote:
>> Is it really enough to do this at build time?  A very small percentage of users
>> running this will also be building their own libpq so the warning is lost on
>> them.  That being said, I'm not entirely sure what else we could do (bleeping a
>> warning every time is clearly not userfriendly) so maybe this is a TODO in the
>> code?
> I've added a TODO back. At the moment, I don't have any good ideas; if
> the user isn't building libpq, they're not going to be able to take
> action on the warning anyway, and for many use cases they're probably
> not going to care.

This just depends on how people have built their libcurl, right?

Do we have any information whether the async-dns-free build is a common 
configuration?