Re: How to get login user name and host name in pgaudit

On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 05:32:56AM -0700, rakeshkumar464 wrote:
> I installed latest pgaudit (1.2) with pg10. I am testing it and I see that
> it does not log the login user name and host name.
>
> For example, if user mary is running select * from sensitive_table, I want
> Mary and the machine from where she ran in the log.
>
> It seems to log the ids which needs to be joined with pg_ views to convert
> it into login user name and host name.
>
> any pointers on how to get it done.
>
> thanks.
>

According to the README [1] you need to set the log_line_prefix GUC
variable [2]. It's default value is '%m [%p]'. For example:

=# alter system set log_line_prefix to '%m [%p] %u %h';
=# select pg_reload_conf();

This GUC variable will change all log lines of PostgreSQL, not only
pgaudit's.

1 - https://github.com/pgaudit/pgaudit#format
2 - https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/runtime-config-logging.html#guc-log-line-prefix

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