Re: Is there a way to log only a particular user connection attempts in Postgres?

From: Achilleas Mantzios <achill(at)matrix(dot)gatewaynet(dot)com>
To: pgsql-admin(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Is there a way to log only a particular user connection attempts in Postgres?
Date: 2019-03-22 08:49:31
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Hello
On 22/3/19 6:24 π.μ., pavan95 wrote:
> Hi Community,
>
> Is there any way to log a user login/connection attempts in a log file ?
>
> I know that we have log_connections parameter for this. But it logs all the
> connection attempts for all users across the instance.
>
> But here my requirement is to exclude login attempts for a particular
> user(as in my case its application user and postgres user).
You can't set that on a user level. At least not with pgsql 11. What you can do is use connection pooling (which is a good thing) so that login connections/disconnections will be not so frequent as to
create noise in your log files.
>
> I have also seen "pg_audit" but it is not logging any login events.
>
> Please shed some light on this scenario.
>
> Looking forward to hear from you.
>
> Regards,
> Pavan Teja,
> 9841380956
>
>
>
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