Re: PG 18 release notes draft committed - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Thu, May 1, 2025 at 7:44 PM Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.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
OAUTHlibraries, 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