Re: [PoC] Federated Authn/z with OAUTHBEARER

From: Wolfgang Walther <walther(at)technowledgy(dot)de>
To: Jacob Champion <jacob(dot)champion(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81(at)gmail(dot)com>, Antonin Houska <ah(at)cybertec(dot)at>
Subject: Re: [PoC] Federated Authn/z with OAUTHBEARER
Date: 2025-04-08 16:35:05
Message-ID: 26c679f4-e4c5-4e67-93fd-703c8630a6d1@technowledgy.de
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Jacob Champion:
> It allows packagers to ship the OAuth library separately, so end users
> that don't want the additional exposure don't have to install it at
> all.

Ah, this came in after I sent my other mail, with this foot-note:

> Currently, the two build systems don't handle the "please build only
libpq" scenario well. If that was supported better, building a second
package with oauth support could be much easier.

I think we should rather improve the build systems to handle this case,
to give packagers more flexibility.

Best,

Wolfgang

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