Re: pgaudit - an auditing extension for PostgreSQL

On 1/27/15 5:06 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 5:55 PM, Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com> wrote:
>> BTW, I know that at least earlier versions of EnterpriseDB's version of
>> Postgres (circa 2007) had an auditing feature. I never dealt with any
>> customers who were using it when I was there, but perhaps some other folks
>> could shed some light on what customers wanted to see an an auditing
>> feature... (I'm looking at you, Jimbo!)
>
> It's still there, but it's nothing like pgaudit. What I hear is that
> our customers are looking for something that has the capabilities of
> DBMS_FGA. I haven't researched either that or pgaudit enough to know
> how similar they are.

Do they really need the full capabilities of DBMS_FGA? At first glance, it looks even more sophisticated than anything that's been discussed so far. To wit (from http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/appdev.102/b14258/d_fga.htm#CDEIECAG)

DBMS_FGA.ADD_POLICY(
object_schema VARCHAR2,
object_name VARCHAR2,
policy_name VARCHAR2,
audit_condition VARCHAR2,
audit_column VARCHAR2,
handler_schema VARCHAR2,
handler_module VARCHAR2,
enable BOOLEAN,
statement_types VARCHAR2,
audit_trail BINARY_INTEGER IN DEFAULT,
audit_column_opts BINARY_INTEGER IN DEFAULT);
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