Re: Implementing pgaudit extension on Microsoft Windows

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Niels Jespersen <NJN(at)dst(dot)dk>
Cc: "pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Implementing pgaudit extension on Microsoft Windows
Date: 2019-02-11 14:37:05
Message-ID: CAFj8pRB+DoTxk83R0TmiazRiyRsCda4RgDXGGb7CDQ1rkymXjg@mail.gmail.com
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po 11. 2. 2019 v 14:23 odesílatel Niels Jespersen <NJN(at)dst(dot)dk> napsal:

> Hello all
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> Recent Oracle convert here.
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> Running PostgreSQL 11 on Windows (10 and 2016).
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> Please advise, if I should direct this to another mailinglist or forum.
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> I want to implement detailed object auditing on PostgreSQL. This is what
> PGAudit extension does. However most advice on this is directed at Linux
> and friends, which is fair enough. From Googleing around, it seems it
> should be possible to compile on Windows, though.
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> And it is. I have compiled pgaudit.dll from the source out of pgaudit
> version 1.3.
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> And this:
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> Copied pgaudit.dll to C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\11\lib
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> Copied pgaudit.control and pgaudit--1.3.sql to C:\Program
> Files\PostgreSQL\11\share\extension
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> Set shared_preload_libraries = 'pgaudit'
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> Restart PostgreSQL
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> Run “CREATE EXTENSION pgaudit;”
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> alter system set pgaudit.log = 'all';
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> select pg_reload_conf();
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> Nothing enters the log-file from pgaudit. Creating tables (relations,
> sorry). Selecting from tables, nothing in the log.
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> I can see that alter system set pgaudit.logx = 'all'; complains about
> “unrecognized configuration parameter”, so something is known about
> pgaudit.
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> I can see that postgres.exe has locked pgaudit.dll, so postgreSQL knows it
> is there, but nothing in the log-file.
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> I need some advice regarding the next steps in my troubleshooting.
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probably you should to use

alter system set "pgaudit.log" = 'all';

Regards

Pavel

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> Regards
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> Niels Jespersen
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