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

From Fabrízio de Royes Mello
Subject Re: pgaudit - an auditing extension for PostgreSQL
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Msg-id CAFcNs+qDb1mzA_pV0sgN_3JCrw_fq9MOoo02ionXpzgG8Ex3Fg@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: pgaudit - an auditing extension for PostgreSQL  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 12:36 AM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/07/2014 09:44 AM, Fabrízio de Royes Mello wrote:
> > We can think in a mechanism to create "properties / options" and assign it
> > to objects (table, index, column, schema, ...) like COMMENT does.
> >
> > A quickly thought:
> >
> > CREATE OPTION [ IF NOT EXISTS ] name
> >     VALIDATOR valfunction
> >     [ DEFAULT value ];
> >
> > ALTER TABLE name
> >     SET OPTION optname { TO | = } { value | 'value' | DEFAULT };
> >
> > It's just a simple thought of course. We must think better about the syntax
> > and purposes.
>
> If we're going to do this (and it seems like a good idea), we really,
> really, really need to include some general system views which expose
> the options in a user-friendly format (like columns, JSON or an array).
>  It's already very hard for users to get information about what
> reloptions have been set.
>

Maybe into "information_schema" ??

Regards,

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