Re: Exclude certain application pgaudit logging?

On 2/6/24 10:18 AM, Adrian Klaver wrote:
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> 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.)
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> Using what audit software?

Memo to self, read subject line.

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>> 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.
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> How do you know they are legitimate  requests?
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>> 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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