On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 6:54 PM, Jim Nasby <jim.na...@bluetreble.com> wrote:
> On 1/27/15 5:06 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 5:55 PM, Jim Nasby <jim.na...@bluetreble.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> BTW, I know that at least earlier versions of EnterpriseDB's version of
>>> Postgres (circa 2007) had an auditing feature. I never dealt with any
>>> customers who were using it when I was there, but perhaps some other
>>> folks
>>> could shed some light on what customers wanted to see an an auditing
>>> feature... (I'm looking at you, Jimbo!)
>>
>>
>> It's still there, but it's nothing like pgaudit.  What I hear is that
>> our customers are looking for something that has the capabilities of
>> DBMS_FGA.  I haven't researched either that or pgaudit enough to know
>> how similar they are.
>
>
> Do they really need the full capabilities of DBMS_FGA? At first glance, it
> looks even more sophisticated than anything that's been discussed so far. To
> wit (from
> http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/appdev.102/b14258/d_fga.htm#CDEIECAG):
>
> DBMS_FGA.ADD_POLICY(
>    object_schema      VARCHAR2,
>    object_name        VARCHAR2,
>    policy_name        VARCHAR2,
>    audit_condition    VARCHAR2,
>    audit_column       VARCHAR2,
>    handler_schema     VARCHAR2,
>    handler_module     VARCHAR2,
>    enable             BOOLEAN,
>    statement_types    VARCHAR2,
>    audit_trail        BINARY_INTEGER IN DEFAULT,
>    audit_column_opts  BINARY_INTEGER IN DEFAULT);

I don't know.

-- 
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company


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