Re: PG 18 release notes draft committed

From: Jacob Champion <jacob(dot)champion(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PG 18 release notes draft committed
Date: 2025-05-05 19:20:15
Message-ID: CAOYmi+mEQOqBSJas5V5t__b+6h_MLxyy3JFrVJEq638fnNxi0A@mail.gmail.com
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Thu, May 1, 2025 at 7:44 PM Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> https://momjian.us/pgsql_docs/release-18.html

> +Add support for the "oauth" authentication (Jacob Champion, Daniel Gustafsson, Thomas Munro)

Should be either 'support for "oauth" authentication' or 'support for
the "oauth" authentication method', I think.

> +This adds an "oauth" authentication method to pg_hba.conf, a server variable oauth_validator_libraries to specify OAUTH libraries, a configure flag --with-libcurl to add the required
> +compile-time libraries, and libpq OAUTH options.

Maybe the description of oauth_validator_libraries could be something
like "to load token validation modules"?

Also, "OAUTH" should just be "OAuth". We should probably lock in the
capitalization:

- "OAuth" is the name of the framework we're using
- "oauth" is the HBA method name in the configs
- "OAUTHBEARER" is the internal name of the SASL method, which most
users don't care about and should only rarely appear in the docs

Thanks!
--Jacob

In response to

Responses

Browse pgsql-hackers by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Nathan Bossart 2025-05-05 19:23:25 Re: Horribly slow pg_upgrade performance with many Large Objects
Previous Message Jonathan S. Katz 2025-05-05 19:07:01 PostgreSQL 18 Beta 1 release announcement draft