Re: [PoC] Federated Authn/z with OAUTHBEARER

From: Jacob Champion <jacob(dot)champion(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Wolfgang Walther <walther(at)technowledgy(dot)de>, 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 16:17:03
Message-ID: CAOYmi+mVzY5SXGeRNW+JMK-nJaX_2QL9Y6PnJOL6uhJk+YfHSA@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Apr 8, 2025 at 9:14 AM Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> How does this patch help us avoid having to handle curl CVEs and its
> curl's additional dependencies? As I understand the patch, it makes
> libpq _not_ have additional dependencies but moves the dependencies to a
> special loadable library that libpq can use.

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.

--Jacob

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