Re: Auditing idea

Chris Hutchinson <chris@hutchinsonsoftware.com>

From: "Chris Hutchinson" <chris@hutchinsonsoftware.com>
To: "Felipe Schnack" <felipes@ritterdosreis.br>
Cc: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-08-08T03:04:34Z
Lists: pgsql-general
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.