Thread: Not able to set pgaudit.log with pgaudit 1.3.2 in PostgreSQL 11.9

On 11/7/20 10:42 AM, Dhinakaran R wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I had installed PostgreSQL 11.9 and pgaudit 1.3.2.  updated 
> shared_preload_libraries, restarted PostgreSQL, created an extension for 
> pgaudit and set parameters for pgaudit in postgresql.conf.  But 
> surprisingly pgaudit.log is not getting picked up and neither able to 
> set it manually.
> 
> 
> postgres>pwd
> /usr/pgsql-11/lib
> postgres>ls -ltr *pgaudit*
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 33088 Oct  6 10:48 pgaudit.so
> postgres>
> 
> postgres>pwd
> /usr/pgsql-11/share/extension
> postgres>ls -ltr *pgaudit*
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 145 Oct  6 10:48 pgaudit.control
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 615 Oct  6 10:48 pgaudit--1.3.2.sql
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 175 Oct  6 10:48 pgaudit--1.3--1.3.1.sql
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 177 Oct  6 10:48 pgaudit--1.3.1--1.3.2.sql
> postgres>
> 
> postgres=# create extension pgaudit;
> CREATE EXTENSION
> postgres=# select * from pg_Extension;
>   extname | extowner | extnamespace | extrelocatable | extversion | 
> extconfig | extcondition
> ---------+----------+--------------+----------------+------------+-----------+--------------
>   plpgsql |       10 |           11 | f              | 1.0        |     
>        |
>   pgaudit |       10 |         2200 | t              | 1.3.2      |     
>        |
> (2 rows)
> 
> 
> 
> postgres=# select name, setting, source from pg_settings where name like 
> '%audit%';
>              name            | setting |       source
> ----------------------------+---------+--------------------
>   pgaudit.log                | none    | default
>   pgaudit.log_catalog        | on      | configuration file
>   pgaudit.log_client         | on      | configuration file
>   pgaudit.log_level          | log     | default
>   pgaudit.log_parameter      | on      | configuration file
>   pgaudit.log_relation       | off     | default
>   pgaudit.log_statement_once | off     | default
>   pgaudit.role               |         | default
> (8 rows)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> But I have below parameters in postgresql.conf.. not sure why its not 
> picking up pgaudit.log value.

Have you looked at the Postgres log to see if there are relevant error 
messages?

> 
> log_filename = 'postgresql-%Y-%m-%d_%H%M%S.log'
> log_line_prefix = '%m %u %d [%p]: '
> shared_preload_libraries = 'pgaudit' # (change requires restart)
> pgaudit.log = 'write, role, ddl, misc_set'
> pgaudit.log_catalog = on
> pgaudit.log_client = on
> pgaudit.log_parameter = on
> 
> Thanks,
> Dhiraam.


-- 
Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@aklaver.com

Dhinakaran R <dhiraam.postgresql@gmail.com> wrote on 2020/11/07 02:03:22 PM:


> > I had installed PostgreSQL 11.9 and pgaudit 1.3.2.  updated
> > shared_preload_libraries, restarted PostgreSQL, created an extension for
> > pgaudit and set parameters for pgaudit in postgresql.conf.  But
> > surprisingly pgaudit.log is not getting picked up and neither able to
> > set it manually.


> > pgaudit.log = 'write, role, ddl, misc_set'

misc_set was added in pgAudit 1.4, if you remove that it will likely work.

pgAudit should probably log when it has an invalid parameter.

Brad.