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

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@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.
Okay.

 
> > +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"?

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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