Re: Feature request: permissions change history for auditing

[Thom Brown <thombrown(at)gmail(dot)com>]

2009/11/30 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.
>
>
I concede your suggestion of the ddl log output.  I guess that could then be
filtered to obtain the necessary information.

Thanks

Thom