Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Add pg_audit, an auditing extension

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Add pg_audit, an auditing extension
Date: 2015-05-28 02:46:02
Message-ID: CAFj8pRBmfASUwBzfmTjCJKRo-myJG+98MJmcZvKE-_fkLS277w@mail.gmail.com
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2015-05-28 3:30 GMT+02:00 Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>:

>
> On 05/27/2015 06:11 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
>
> Thank you for your honest comments and your concern.
>>
>> I sincerely hope you're able to be involved in developing auditing for
>> PostgreSQL in the future, as it is a key requirement in any secure
>> environment.
>>
>
>
> Guys,
>
> I think we are overlooking the rather obvious elephant in the room. This
> is an extension. There is no reason for it to be in core. Revert the patch,
> gain independence, the ability to innovate mid-cycle and move on to bigger
> fish.
>

any work in contrib has bigger progress.

I wrote plpgsql_check - and the living out of contrib is neutral - I can
do some changes freely, but it is used 1% users who can has benefit from
this extension. 9.5 will be released after three months and lot of
potential bugs can be fixed. It is contrib - it can be moved, removed, but
better if can works.

Regards

Pavel

>
> Sincerely,
>
> JD
>
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