Re: Best Tool for PostgreSQL Auditing and Storing Audit Logs Separately

Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>

From: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
To: Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com>
Cc: "pgsql-generallists.postgresql.org" <pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-04-16T19:42:54Z
Lists: pgsql-general
On Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 02:43:59PM -0400, Ron Johnson wrote:
> You'll have to bring that up with the PgAudit maintainer.  Note, though,
> that the purpose of PgAudit is not "recreate the database from audit logs";
> it's "what Auditors care about".  In my experience, auditors do not care
> about COMMIT and ROLLBACK statements.

I would care about what happened.  To know what happened I'd have to see
either only audit logs for committed transactions, or also see the
COMMIT and ROLLBACK statements.

Nico
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