Re: pgaudit - an auditing extension for PostgreSQL

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>, Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Ian Barwick <ian(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pgaudit - an auditing extension for PostgreSQL
Date: 2014-07-29 13:08:38
Message-ID: 20140729130838.GB2791@momjian.us
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On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 09:59:59AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> Simon,
>
> * Simon Riggs (simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com) wrote:
> > "Which tables are audited" would be available via the reloptions
> > field.
>
> RLS could be implemented through reloptions too. Would it be useful to
> some people? Likely. Would it satisfy the users who, today, are
> actually asking for that feature? No (or at least, not the ones that
> I've talked with). We could expand quite a few things to work through
> reloptions but I don't see it as a particularly good design for complex
> subsystems, of which auditing is absolutely one of those.

I saw many mentions of pg_upgrade in this old thread. I think the focus
should be in pg_dump, which is where the SQL syntax or custom reloptions
would be dumped and restored. pg_upgrade will just use that
functionality. In summary, I don't think there is anything
pg_upgrade-specific here, but rather the issue of how this information will
be dumped and restored, regardless of whether a major upgrade is taking
place.

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