diff --git a/vertx-auth-sql-client/src/main/asciidoc/index.adoc b/vertx-auth-sql-client/src/main/asciidoc/index.adoc
index 352b2293f..b2af96727 100644
--- a/vertx-auth-sql-client/src/main/asciidoc/index.adoc
+++ b/vertx-auth-sql-client/src/main/asciidoc/index.adoc
@@ -39,6 +39,18 @@ The out of the box config assumes certain queries for authentication and authori
 {@link io.vertx.ext.auth.sqlclient.SqlAuthorizationOptions#setPermissionsQuery(String)} and
 {@link io.vertx.ext.auth.sqlclient.SqlAuthorizationOptions#setRolesQuery(String)}, if you want to use them with a different database schema.
 
+When the authentication query returns more columns than the password, the extra columns can be mapped to attributes of the
+authenticated {@link io.vertx.ext.auth.User} by providing a mapping function:
+
+[source,$lang]
+----
+{@link examples.AuthSqlExamples#example10}
+----
+
+The password is always expected in the first column, any other column is available to the mapping function and the returned
+JSON object is merged into the user attributes. This avoids a second query to load user data, such as its id, right after
+authentication.
+
 The basic data definition for the storage should look like this:
 
 [source,sql]
diff --git a/vertx-auth-sql-client/src/main/java/examples/AuthSqlExamples.java b/vertx-auth-sql-client/src/main/java/examples/AuthSqlExamples.java
index 6f7cceb9a..ccae8c54b 100644
--- a/vertx-auth-sql-client/src/main/java/examples/AuthSqlExamples.java
+++ b/vertx-auth-sql-client/src/main/java/examples/AuthSqlExamples.java
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 package examples;
 
 import io.vertx.core.Vertx;
+import io.vertx.core.json.JsonObject;
 import io.vertx.ext.auth.User;
 import io.vertx.ext.auth.prng.VertxContextPRNG;
 import io.vertx.ext.auth.authentication.AuthenticationProvider;
@@ -46,6 +47,20 @@ public void example5(Vertx vertx, SqlClient sqlClient) {
       SqlAuthentication.create(sqlClient, options);
   }
 
+  public void example10(Vertx vertx, SqlClient sqlClient) {
+
+    SqlAuthenticationOptions options = new SqlAuthenticationOptions()
+      // the password is expected in the first column, any other
+      // column is available to the attribute mapper
+      .setAuthenticationQuery(
+        "SELECT password, email FROM users WHERE username = ?");
+
+    AuthenticationProvider authenticationProvider =
+      SqlAuthentication.create(sqlClient, options, row ->
+        new JsonObject()
+          .put("email", row.getString("email")));
+  }
+
   public void example6(AuthenticationProvider authProvider) {
 
     Credentials authInfo = new UsernamePasswordCredentials(
diff --git a/vertx-auth-sql-client/src/main/java/io/vertx/ext/auth/sqlclient/SqlAuthentication.java b/vertx-auth-sql-client/src/main/java/io/vertx/ext/auth/sqlclient/SqlAuthentication.java
index 00198fbf6..4bf8c108c 100644
--- a/vertx-auth-sql-client/src/main/java/io/vertx/ext/auth/sqlclient/SqlAuthentication.java
+++ b/vertx-auth-sql-client/src/main/java/io/vertx/ext/auth/sqlclient/SqlAuthentication.java
@@ -17,11 +17,14 @@
 package io.vertx.ext.auth.sqlclient;
 
 import io.vertx.codegen.annotations.VertxGen;
+import io.vertx.core.json.JsonObject;
 import io.vertx.ext.auth.authentication.AuthenticationProvider;
 import io.vertx.ext.auth.sqlclient.impl.SqlAuthenticationImpl;
+import io.vertx.sqlclient.Row;
 import io.vertx.sqlclient.SqlClient;
 
 import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.function.Function;
 
 /**
  * Factory interface for creating {@link io.vertx.ext.auth.authentication.AuthenticationProvider} instances that use the Vert.x SQL client.
@@ -52,6 +55,24 @@ static SqlAuthentication create(SqlClient client, SqlAuthenticationOptions optio
     return new SqlAuthenticationImpl(client, options);
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Create a JDBC auth provider implementation that enriches the authenticated user with
+   * attributes extracted from the authentication query row.
+   * <p>
+   * The authentication query is expected to return the password in the first column, any other
+   * column is available to the given {@code attributeMapper}. The JSON object returned by the
+   * mapper is merged into the {@link io.vertx.ext.auth.User#attributes()} of the authenticated
+   * user.
+   *
+   * @param client          the JDBC client instance
+   * @param options         authentication options
+   * @param attributeMapper maps the authenticated row to extra user attributes, may return {@code null}
+   * @return the auth provider
+   */
+  static SqlAuthentication create(SqlClient client, SqlAuthenticationOptions options, Function<Row, JsonObject> attributeMapper) {
+    return new SqlAuthenticationImpl(client, options, attributeMapper);
+  }
+
   /**
    * Hashes a password to be stored.
    * <p>
diff --git a/vertx-auth-sql-client/src/main/java/io/vertx/ext/auth/sqlclient/impl/SqlAuthenticationImpl.java b/vertx-auth-sql-client/src/main/java/io/vertx/ext/auth/sqlclient/impl/SqlAuthenticationImpl.java
index 0716fa454..e71cba308 100644
--- a/vertx-auth-sql-client/src/main/java/io/vertx/ext/auth/sqlclient/impl/SqlAuthenticationImpl.java
+++ b/vertx-auth-sql-client/src/main/java/io/vertx/ext/auth/sqlclient/impl/SqlAuthenticationImpl.java
@@ -28,9 +28,12 @@
 import io.vertx.sqlclient.SqlClient;
 import io.vertx.sqlclient.Tuple;
 
+import io.vertx.core.json.JsonObject;
+
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Objects;
+import java.util.function.Function;
 
 /**
  * @author <a href="http://tfox.org">Tim Fox</a>
@@ -39,11 +42,17 @@ public class SqlAuthenticationImpl implements SqlAuthentication {
 
   private final SqlClient client;
   private final SqlAuthenticationOptions options;
+  private final Function<Row, JsonObject> attributeMapper;
   private final HashingStrategy strategy = HashingStrategy.load();
 
   public SqlAuthenticationImpl(SqlClient client, SqlAuthenticationOptions options) {
+    this(client, options, null);
+  }
+
+  public SqlAuthenticationImpl(SqlClient client, SqlAuthenticationOptions options, Function<Row, JsonObject> attributeMapper) {
     this.client = Objects.requireNonNull(client);
     this.options = Objects.requireNonNull(options);
+    this.attributeMapper = attributeMapper;
   }
 
   @Override
@@ -77,6 +86,12 @@ public Future<User> authenticate(Credentials credentials) {
               User user = User.fromName(authInfo.getUsername());
               // metadata "amr"
               user.principal().put("amr", Collections.singletonList("pwd"));
+              if (attributeMapper != null) {
+                JsonObject attributes = attributeMapper.apply(row);
+                if (attributes != null) {
+                  user.attributes().mergeIn(attributes);
+                }
+              }
               return Future.succeededFuture(user);
             } else {
               return Future.failedFuture("Invalid username/password");
diff --git a/vertx-auth-sql-client/src/test/java/io/vertx/tests/MySQLTest.java b/vertx-auth-sql-client/src/test/java/io/vertx/tests/MySQLTest.java
index e121efaab..17c0db23f 100644
--- a/vertx-auth-sql-client/src/test/java/io/vertx/tests/MySQLTest.java
+++ b/vertx-auth-sql-client/src/test/java/io/vertx/tests/MySQLTest.java
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 package io.vertx.tests;
 
+import io.vertx.core.json.JsonObject;
 import io.vertx.ext.auth.User;
 import io.vertx.ext.auth.authentication.AuthenticationProvider;
 import io.vertx.ext.auth.authentication.Credentials;
@@ -8,6 +9,7 @@
 import io.vertx.ext.auth.authorization.PermissionBasedAuthorization;
 import io.vertx.ext.auth.authorization.RoleBasedAuthorization;
 import io.vertx.ext.auth.sqlclient.SqlAuthentication;
+import io.vertx.ext.auth.sqlclient.SqlAuthenticationOptions;
 import io.vertx.ext.auth.sqlclient.SqlAuthorization;
 import io.vertx.ext.unit.Async;
 import io.vertx.ext.unit.TestContext;
@@ -111,6 +113,28 @@ public void testAuthenticateBadUser(TestContext should) {
       });
   }
 
+  @Test
+  public void testAuthenticateWithAttributeMapper(TestContext should) {
+    final Async test = should.async();
+
+    AuthenticationProvider authn = SqlAuthentication.create(mysql,
+      new SqlAuthenticationOptions()
+        .setAuthenticationQuery("SELECT password, email FROM users WHERE username = ?"),
+      row -> new JsonObject().put("email", row.getString("email")));
+
+    Credentials authInfo = new UsernamePasswordCredentials("lopus", "secret");
+
+    authn.authenticate(authInfo)
+      .onComplete(authenticate -> {
+        should.assertTrue(authenticate.succeeded());
+        final User user = authenticate.result();
+        should.assertNotNull(user);
+        should.assertEquals("lopus", user.principal().getString("username"));
+        should.assertEquals("lopus@vertx.io", user.attributes().getString("email"));
+        test.complete();
+      });
+  }
+
   @Test
   public void testAuthoriseHasRole(TestContext should) {
     final Async test = should.async();
diff --git a/vertx-auth-sql-client/src/test/resources/mysql-auth-ddl-test.sql b/vertx-auth-sql-client/src/test/resources/mysql-auth-ddl-test.sql
index 5d76201d9..8f80892c2 100644
--- a/vertx-auth-sql-client/src/test/resources/mysql-auth-ddl-test.sql
+++ b/vertx-auth-sql-client/src/test/resources/mysql-auth-ddl-test.sql
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 CREATE TABLE `users`
 (
   username VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,
-  password VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL
+  password VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,
+  email    VARCHAR(255)
 );
 
 CREATE TABLE `users_roles`
@@ -30,7 +31,8 @@ ALTER TABLE users_roles
 
 insert into users
 values ('lopus',
-        '$pbkdf2$1drH02tXcgS5ipJIf8v/AlL/qm3CjAgAp7Qt3hyJx/c$/lONU4cTa3ayMRJbHIup47nX/1HhysyzDA0dpoFpsf727LoGH2OZ+SyFCGtv/pIEZK3mQtJv+yjzD+W0quF6xg');
+        '$pbkdf2$1drH02tXcgS5ipJIf8v/AlL/qm3CjAgAp7Qt3hyJx/c$/lONU4cTa3ayMRJbHIup47nX/1HhysyzDA0dpoFpsf727LoGH2OZ+SyFCGtv/pIEZK3mQtJv+yjzD+W0quF6xg',
+        'lopus@vertx.io');
 
 insert into roles_perms
 values ('dev', 'commit_code');