Re: pgaudit - an auditing extension for PostgreSQL

On 2/18/15 10:29 PM, Fujii Masao wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 12:25 AM, David Steele <david@pgmasters.net> wrote:
>>> The pg_audit doesn't log BIND parameter values when prepared statement is used.
>>> Seems this is an oversight of the patch. Or is this intentional?
>>
>> It's actually intentional - following the model I talked about in my
>> earlier emails, the idea is to log statements only.
>
> Is this acceptable for audit purpose in many cases? Without the values,
> I'm afraid that it's hard to analyze what table records are affected by
> the statements from the audit logs. I was thinking that identifying the
> data affected is one of important thing for the audit. If I'm malicious DBA,
> I will always use the extended protocol to prevent the values from being
> audited when I execute the statement.

I agree with you, but I wonder how much is practical at this stage.
Let me think about it and see what I can come up with.

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- David Steele
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