Thread: Auditing idea
Hey all! I had an idea to implement a very simple (IMHO) auditing mechanism for an application I'm developing, and thoughtsome people here could give some hints, opinions, etc about it. I was thinking about implementing update and delete triggers for all my tables that I want to be audited, and these triggerswould create automatically the auditing message for me. Basically, the update triggers would store the row valuesin the OLD and NEW rows, and the delete trigger would store the values in the OLD row. What you guys think of this idea? To me seems simple and good enough. /~\ The ASCII Felipe Schnack (felipes@ritterdosreis.br) \ / Ribbon Campaign Analista de Sistemas X Against HTML Cel.: 51-91287530 / \ Email! Linux Counter #281893 Centro Universitário Ritter dos Reis http://www.ritterdosreis.br ritter@ritterdosreis.br Fone: 51-32303341
Felipe, This article might be of interest. It implements exactly the functionality you describe: http://philip.greenspun.com/internet-application-workbook/examples-content-m anagement/audit-acs-doc Regards, Chris > Hey all! I had an idea to implement a very simple (IMHO) auditing mechanism for an application I'm developing, and thought > some people here could give some hints, opinions, etc about it. > I was thinking about implementing update and delete triggers for all my tables that I want to be audited, and these > triggers would create automatically the auditing message for me. Basically, the update triggers would store the row values > in the OLD and NEW rows, and the delete trigger would store the values in the OLD row. > What you guys think of this idea? To me seems simple and good enough.
You might want to take a look at this project: http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/tablelog/download/download.php There is another project similar to that one on gborg as well, but I don't recall the name at this time. On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 15:30, Felipe Schnack wrote: > Hey all! I had an idea to implement a very simple (IMHO) auditing mechanism for an application I'm developing, and thoughtsome people here could give some hints, opinions, etc about it. > I was thinking about implementing update and delete triggers for all my tables that I want to be audited, and these triggerswould create automatically the auditing message for me. Basically, the update triggers would store the row valuesin the OLD and NEW rows, and the delete trigger would store the values in the OLD row. > What you guys think of this idea? To me seems simple and good enough. > > > /~\ The ASCII Felipe Schnack (felipes@ritterdosreis.br) > \ / Ribbon Campaign Analista de Sistemas > X Against HTML Cel.: 51-91287530 > / \ Email! Linux Counter #281893 > > Centro Universitário Ritter dos Reis > http://www.ritterdosreis.br > ritter@ritterdosreis.br > Fone: 51-32303341 > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? > > http://archives.postgresql.org -- Best Regards, Mike Benoit
I think it's the SPI package from Hans... On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Mike Benoit wrote: > You might want to take a look at this project: > http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/tablelog/download/download.php > > There is another project similar to that one on gborg as well, but I > don't recall the name at this time. > > On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 15:30, Felipe Schnack wrote: > > Hey all! I had an idea to implement a very simple (IMHO) auditing mechanism for an application I'm developing, andthought some people here could give some hints, opinions, etc about it. > > I was thinking about implementing update and delete triggers for all my tables that I want to be audited, and thesetriggers would create automatically the auditing message for me. Basically, the update triggers would store the rowvalues in the OLD and NEW rows, and the delete trigger would store the values in the OLD row. > > What you guys think of this idea? To me seems simple and good enough. > > > > > > /~\ The ASCII Felipe Schnack (felipes@ritterdosreis.br) > > \ / Ribbon Campaign Analista de Sistemas > > X Against HTML Cel.: 51-91287530 > > / \ Email! Linux Counter #281893 > > > > Centro Universitário Ritter dos Reis > > http://www.ritterdosreis.br > > ritter@ritterdosreis.br > > Fone: 51-32303341 > > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > > TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? > > > > http://archives.postgresql.org >