Re: PATCH: Add GSSAPI ccache_name option to libpq

On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 08:44:23PM +0100, Daniel Carter wrote:
> The original motivation for investigating this was setting up a web app
> which could authenticate to a database server using a Kerberos ticket. Since
> the web framework already needs to create a connection string (with database
> name etc.) to set up the database connection, having an option here for the
> ccache location makes it much more straightforward to specify than having to
> save data out to environment variables (and makes things cleaner if there
> are potentially multiple database connections going on at once in different
> processes).
>
> There may well be a better way of going about this -- it's just that I can't
> currently see an obvious way to get this kind of setup working using only
> the environment variable.

The environment variable bit sounds like a fair argument to me.

Please do not forget to add this patch and thread to the next commit
fest:
https://commitfest.postgresql.org/33/
You need a community account, and that's unfortunately too late for
Postgres 14, but the development of 15 will begin at the beginning of
July so it could be included there.
--
Michael