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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Wolfgang Walther <[email protected]>
Cc: Jacob Champion <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Gustafsson <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Berg <[email protected]>
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Cc: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <[email protected]>
Cc: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PoC] Federated Authn/z with OAUTHBEARER
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2025 13:02:11 -0400
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On Tue, Apr  8, 2025 at 06:57:18PM +0200, Wolfgang Walther wrote:
> Jacob Champion:
> > On Tue, Apr 8, 2025 at 9:32 AM Wolfgang Walther <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > And that should also not be a problem for distributions - they could offer a libpq and a libpq_oauth package, where only one of them can be installed at the same time, I guess? *
> > My outsider understanding is that maintaining this sort of thing
> > becomes a major headache, because of combinatorics. You don't really
> > want to ship a libpq and libpq-with-gss and libpq-with-oauth and
> > libpq-with-oauth-and-gss and ...
> 
> That would only be the case, if you were to consider those other
> dependencies as "dangerous" as cURL. But we already depend on them. So if
> it's really the case that cURL is that much worse, that we consider loading
> it as a module... then the combinatorics should not be a problem either.
> 
> However, if the other deps are considered problematic as well, then the ship
> has already sailed, and there is not point for a special case here anymore.

Yes, I think this is what I am asking too.  For me it was curl's
security reputation and whether that would taint the security reputation
of libpq. For Tom, I think it was the dependency additions.

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