Re: PostgreSQL Audit Extension

On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 12:54:17PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> > Understood.  My point is that there is a short list of read events, and
> > many DDL events.  We have already hesitated to record DDL changes for
> > logical replication because of the code size, maintenance overhead, and
> > testing required.
> 
> DDL is already captured using the event triggers mechanism (which is
> what it was invented for in the first place).  The only thing we don't
> have is a hardcoded mechanism to transform it from C struct format to
> SQL language.

Right, which is I think were the maintenance/testing overhead will come
from, which we are trying to avoid.  Having logical replication and
auditing share that burden would be a win.

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