Re: Exclude certain application pgaudit logging?

On 2/6/24 10:11 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:
> Currently, we use Object audit logging to capture all READ access to
> columns FOO_1, FOO_2 and FOO_3 in table BAR.SCRABBLE.  (They are the
> three columns have PII data.)

Using what audit software?

>
> The problem is that the application legitimately reads these columns
> thousands of times per day.  Thus, the log fills up with meaningless
> data that swamps any legitimate invalid accesses.

How do you know they are legitimate  requests?

>
> Thus, I'd like to exclude reads from "Postgresql JDBC Driver". 
> (Currently, I filter that out using "grep -v" in a shell script
> that runs hourly from cron, but I find that unsatisfactory.)

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Adrian Klaver
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