Re: [PATCH] Make jsonapi usable from libpq

On Wed, 2021-07-07 at 01:42 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> writes:
> > It seems to me that this does not address yet the problems with the
> > palloc/pstrdup in jsonapi.c though, which would need to rely on
> > malloc() if we finish to use this code in libpq. I am not sure yet
> > that we have any need to do that yet as we may finish by not using
> > OAUTH as SASL mechanism at the end in core. So perhaps it would be
> > better to just give up on this thread for now?
>
> Yeah, I think there's nothing to do here unless we decide that we
> have to have JSON-parsing ability inside libpq ... which is a
> situation I think we should try hard to avoid.

I'm working on a corrected version of the allocation for the OAuth
proof of concept, so we can see what it might look like there. I will
withdraw this one from the commitfest. Thanks for all the feedback!

--Jacob