Re: PG 18 release notes draft committed

On Mon, May 5, 2025 at 12:20:15PM -0700, Jacob Champion wrote:
> 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.
Okay.

> > +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"?

Done.

> 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

Capitalization changed, patch attached.

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