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From: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>
To: Svensson Peter <peter.svensson@smhi.se>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: pgaudit and create postgis extension logs a lot inserts
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 08:51:20 -0500
Message-ID: <551c26e7-c683-68b3-bd66-6285e859b7ae@pgmasters.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1CC6B04B8F153C4CBE486B1C7FD897430269E49962@WINVMSERV463.ad.smhi.se>
References: <1CC6B04B8F153C4CBE486B1C7FD897430269E49962@WINVMSERV463.ad.smhi.se>

Hi Peter,

On 1/18/18 7:12 AM, Svensson Peter wrote:
> 
> Also noticed that setting a session log to none (set
> pgaudit.log='none';)  overrides parameter from postgresql.conf,  but
> does not get logged, and then you can do whatever you want without any
> audit.
> I supposed this changing of  audit session log parameter should be
> logged to file?

pgaudit is not intended to audit the superuser and only a superuser can
set pgaudit.log.

However, you can limit superuser access with the setuser extension:
https://github.com/pgaudit/set_user

Regards,
-- 
-David
david@pgmasters.net




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