Thursday Feb 20, 2025, Meetup: OAuth Support in PostgreSQL

Thursday Feb 20, 2025 at 6:30pm-8:30pm

OAuth Support in PostgreSQL

Please RSVP in MeetUp to help us estimate head count, if you can:
https://www.meetup.com/pdxpug/events/305777417/

Location:

American Red Cross
3131 N Vancouver Ave, Portland, OR 97227

Parking is available in front of the building. Please be prepared to
show ID and sign in with security when entering the building for the
"Postgres" meeting. We will be in the Columbia Room on the second floor.

Details:

Speaker: Jacob Champion

Postgres has a wide array of supported authentication methods. The
strongest methods have trouble scaling across large numbers of
database instances, though, and while organizations have ways to
centralize user credentials -- for example by using LDAP or Kerberos
-- those solutions come with their own large lists of caveats.I'm
currently developing Postgres-native support for OAuth, which is a
widely-deployed framework for authorizing clients using a third-party
provider. I'll talk about the current state of the patchset, explain
some of the elements of the design, and demonstrate what it might look
like to deploy it yourself.

Jacob Champion is a software developer at EDB and a contributor to
PostgreSQL. He enjoys working on network security, protocol design,
and authentication systems.

--
Mark Wong
EDB https://enterprisedb.com