Re: Feature request: permissions change history for auditing

[Glyn Astill <glynastill(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk>]

--- On Mon, 30/11/09, Thom Brown <thombrown(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> As far as I am aware, there is no way to tell when a
> user/role was granted permissions or had permissions
> revoked, or who made these changes.  I'm wondering if
> it would be useful for security auditing to maintain a
> history of permissions changes only accessible to
> superusers?

I'd have thought you could keep track of this in the logs by setting log_statement >= ddl ?

I'm pretty sure this is a feature that's not wanted, but the ability to add triggers to these sorts of events would surely make more sense than a specific auditing capability.