Hi Samay, > I wanted to submit a patch to expose 2 new hooks (one for the authentication > check and another one for error reporting) in auth.c. These will allow users > to implement their own authentication methods for Postgres or add custom > logic around authentication.
I like the idea - PostgreSQL is all about extendability. Also, well done with TAP tests and an example extension. This being said, I didn't look at the code yet, but cfbot seems to be happy with it: http://cfbot.cputube.org/ > One constraint in the current implementation is that we allow only one > authentication provider to be loaded at a time. In the future, we can add > more functionality to maintain an array of hooks and call the appropriate one > based on the provider name in the pg_hba line. This sounds like a pretty severe and unnecessary limitation to me. Do you think it would be difficult to bypass it in the first implementation? -- Best regards, Aleksander Alekseev
