On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 3:41 PM, David Steele <da...@pgmasters.net> wrote:

> On 1/19/18 6:05 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 6:54 PM, Joe Conway <m...@joeconway.com
> > <mailto:m...@joeconway.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 01/18/2018 04:12 AM, Svensson Peter wrote:
> >     > When I then install  postgis extension in a database it writes a
> huge
> >     > amount of logs which slow down the server a lot.
> >     > Not only table creation and functions are logged,  even  all
> inserts in
> >     > spatial_ref_sys are written to the audit-log.
> >     >
> >     > LOG:  AUDIT: SESSION,1,1,DDL,CREATE FUNCTION,,,"
> >     > ......
> >     > INSERT INTO ""spatial_ref_sys"" (""srid"",""auth_name"
> >     > ....
> >     >
> >     > This behaviour make pgaudit useless in our environment due to the
> >     > overhead in log-file write.
> >
> >     How often do you intend to install PostGIS? Disable pgaudit, install
> >     PostGIS, enable pgaudit?
> >
> >
> > Would it make sense for pgaudit to, at least by option, not include DDL
> > statements that are generated as "sub-parts" of a CREATE EXTENSION? It
> > should still log the CREATE EXTENSION of course, but not necessarily all
> > the contents of it, since that's actually defined in the extension
> > itself already?
> That's doable, but I think it could be abused if it was always on and
> installing extensions is generally not a daily activity.
>

Probably true, yeah. It can certainly be part of a daily activity in say CI
environments etc, but those are not likely environments where pg_audit
makes that much sense in the first place.

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