Re: PostgreSQL Audit Extension

* Joe Conway (mail(at)joeconway(dot)com) wrote:
> On 02/05/2016 10:16 AM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> > An in-core auditing solution would provide us with proper grammar
> > support, ability to directly mark objects for auditing in the catalog,
> > allow us to much more easily maintain auditing capability over time as
> > a small incremental bit of work for each new feature (with proper
> > in-core infrastructure for it) and generally be a far better technical
> > solution. Leveraging the GRANT system is quite cute, and does work, but
> > it's certainly non-intuitive and is only because we've got no better
> > way, due to it being implemented as an extension.
>
> I think one additional item needed would be the ability for the audit
> logs to be sent to a different location than the standard logs.

Indeed, reworking the logging to be supportive of multiple destinations
with tagging of the source, etc, has long been a desire of mine (and
others), though that's largely independent of auditing itself.

Thanks!

Stephen