Re: Select Column Auditing/Logging - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Jeff Davis
Subject Re: Select Column Auditing/Logging
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Msg-id 1248299069.23273.18.camel@monkey-cat.sm.truviso.com
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In response to Select Column Auditing/Logging  (Jeremy Brown <jwbrown77@yahoo.com>)
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On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 14:41 -0700, Jeff Davis wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 12:04 -0700, Jeremy Brown wrote:
> > It seems that PostgreSQL can audit INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, and
> > TRUNCATE through the use of triggers.  But SELECT triggers are
> > unsupported (it does suggest perhaps using RULES).
>
> One thing you can do is use a set-returning function that, as a side
> effect, records what happened.

I should warn you not to record it in a transactional way: it must go
out to an external service, or go back to postgresql using something
like dblink. Otherwise, someone could do:

BEGIN;
SELECT ...;
ROLLBACK;

and whatever you logged would be gone.

Regards,
    Jeff Davis


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