Re: [PATCH] Support pg_ident mapping for LDAP

On Tue, 2021-08-31 at 19:39 +0000, Jacob Champion wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> There was a brief discussion [1] back in February on allowing user
> mapping for LDAP, in order to open up some more complex authorization
> logic (and slightly reduce the need for LDAP-to-Postgres user
> synchronization). Attached is an implementation of this that separates
> the LDAP authentication and authorization identities, and lets the
> client control the former with an `ldapuser` connection option or its
> associated PGLDAPUSER envvar.

The cfbot found a failure in postgres_fdw, which I completely neglected
in my design. I think the desired functionality should be to allow the
ldapuser connection option during CREATE USER MAPPING but not CREATE
SERVER. I'll have a v2 up today to fix that.

--Jacob