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To: Thomas Munro <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: [PoC] Federated Authn/z with OAUTHBEARER
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 19:11:28 -0400
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On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 11:28:50AM +1300, Thomas Munro wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 11:19 AM Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Thomas Munro <[email protected]> writes:
> > > It would increase the build dependencies, assuming a package
> > > maintainer wants to enable as many features as possible, but it would
> > > *not* increase the 'package requires' footprint, merely the 'package
> > > suggests' footprint (as Debian calls it), and it's up to the user
> > > whether they install suggested extra packages, no?
> >
> > Maybe I'm confused, but what I saw was a hard dependency on libcurl,
> > as well as several of its dependencies:
>
> > I don't think that will be satisfied by 'package suggests'.
> > Even if it somehow manages to load, the result of trying to
> > use OAuth would be a segfault rather than any useful message.
>
> I was imagining that it would just error out if you try to use that
> stuff and it fails to open libcurl. Then it's up to end users: if
> they want to use libpq + OAuth, they have to install both libpq5 and
> libcurl packages, and if they don't their connections will just fail,
> presumably with some error message explaining why. Or something like
> that...
Am I understanding that curl is being used just to honor the RFC and it
is only for testing? That seems like a small reason to add such a
dependency.
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