Re: pgaudit - an auditing extension for PostgreSQL - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: pgaudit - an auditing extension for PostgreSQL
Date
Msg-id 20150303003400.GB17787@momjian.us
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In response to Re: pgaudit - an auditing extension for PostgreSQL  (Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>)
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On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 12:29:18PM +0900, Fujii Masao 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 added protocol-level bind() value logging for log_statement, and there
were many requests for this functionality before I implemented it.

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