Re: pgaudit - an auditing extension for PostgreSQL

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com>
Cc: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, MauMau <maumau307(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Fabrízio de Royes Mello <fabriziomello(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Ian Barwick <ian(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Subject: Re: pgaudit - an auditing extension for PostgreSQL
Date: 2015-01-21 01:36:39
Message-ID: CA+Tgmoa=2yrh2YNh7XWWUYY_76aDHsfWJ_hxyDa2ftg6iYF6YA@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 5:03 PM, Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com> wrote:
> +1. In particular I'm very concerned with the idea of doing this via roles,
> because that would make it trivial for any superuser to disable auditing.
> The only good option I could see to provide this kind of flexibility would
> be allowing the user to provide a function that accepts role, object, etc
> and make return a boolean. The performance of that would presumably suck
> with anything but a C function, but we could provide some C functions to
> handle simple cases.
>
> That said, I think the best idea at this stage is either log everything or
> nothing. We can always expand upon that later.

I think this is throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Neither C
functions nor all-or-nothing are going to be of any practical use.

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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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