Jacob Champion

Principal Software Engineer

Jacob Champion is a recognized Major Contributor to PostgreSQL and a Principal Software Engineer at EDB with over a decade of experience designing, building, and maintaining web-based distributed systems. He likes working on protocol security and reading RFCs. You might recognize him from the 4-year long mega-thread on OAuth on the PostgreSQL mailing list.

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OAuth in Postgres 19 (and beyond)

It's somehow mid-October already! We're busy working towards the upcoming PG19 release, but it's been just over a year since my last OAuth post, and it's probably time to talk about that again. Sometimes it's even nice to take a break and think about what we'd like to work on after 19 ships... Earlier this year, at PGConf.dev 2026, I got to discuss and plan the roadmap with interested developers...
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On Developing OAuth

Some thoughts on the history and development process behind the new OAuth support in PostgreSQL 18, and some hopes and dreams for the future.