Re: PostgreSQL Auditing

On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 11:13 AM, Michael Banck
<michael(dot)banck(at)credativ(dot)de> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 07:24:23AM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> PostgreSQL has auditing. It is available now, just not in core. Postgis
>> isn't available in core either and it seems to do just fine.
>
> I don't really buy that argument. For one, PostGIS has a pretty narrow
> functional use-case (spatial), while auditing is a horizontal use-case
> that could be required for any kind of database usage.

If you're saying you think the user base for pgaudit will be larger
than the user base for PostGIS, color me doubtful.

> Now, whether or not the currently submitted approach actually meets the
> above rubber-stamp requirements is a different story, but at least I
> think it would be quite useful to ship auditing capabilites in the
> distribution.

That is a sensible position. :-)

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