Re: pgaudit and create postgis extension logs a lot inserts

From: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>
To: Svensson Peter <peter(dot)svensson(at)smhi(dot)se>, "pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pgaudit and create postgis extension logs a lot inserts
Date: 2018-01-18 16:54:21
Message-ID: 514a9172-df28-56ab-ee65-2c01e5cbeb6a@joeconway.com
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On 01/18/2018 04:12 AM, Svensson Peter wrote:
> When I then install  postgis extension in a database it writes a huge
> amount of logs which slow down the server a lot.
> Not only table creation and functions are logged,  even  all inserts in 
> spatial_ref_sys are written to the audit-log.
>
> LOG:  AUDIT: SESSION,1,1,DDL,CREATE FUNCTION,,,"
> ......
> INSERT INTO ""spatial_ref_sys"" (""srid"",""auth_name"
> ....
>
> This behaviour make pgaudit useless in our environment due to the
> overhead in log-file write.

How often do you intend to install PostGIS? Disable pgaudit, install
PostGIS, enable pgaudit?

Joe

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