pgaudit/pgaudit

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pgAudit is a PostgreSQL extension written in C that provides detailed session and object audit logging through the standard PostgreSQL logging facility. It produces structured audit trails suitable for government, financial, and ISO certification compliance requirements.

Use cases

• produce audit logs for compliance with government, financial, or ISO certifications
• log all statements that touched a specific table without parsing SQL
• capture DDL statements executed inside DO blocks and functions
• track which user ran which statement against the database
• generate detailed audit trails for database forensics
• log object-level access to sensitive tables

When to choose

• you need detailed, searchable audit logs of PostgreSQL activity for auditors
• standard log_statement=all output is insufficient for compliance requirements
• you need to identify all statements affecting a particular relation
• you must demonstrate object-level access logging for certification

When to avoid

• you only need basic monitoring or debugging of statements
• you cannot tolerate the additional logging volume and performance overhead
• you need audit logging for databases other than PostgreSQL

Facets

plugin · maturity stable

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