Jason O'Donnell
Jason O'Donnell
In the last blog post , pgAudit was configured to audit entire classes of statements (session auditing). Session auditing works great, but it can generate a lot of logs and not every administrator needs all that information. In this blog post pgAudit will be configured to use an auditing role to watch only specific objects. This guide assumes pgAudit has already been installed on the target DB server. For more instructions on installing pgAudit, see the official documentation here . pgAudit au...
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Jason O'Donnell
The PostgreSQL Audit extension (pgaudit) provides detailed session and/or object audit logging via the standard PostgreSQL logging facility. Basic statement logging can be provided by the standard logging facility in PostgreSQL. Out of the box logging provided by PostgreSQL is acceptable for monitoring and other usages but does not provide the level of detail generally required for an audit. pgAudit enhances PostgreSQL's logging abilities by allowing administrators to audit specific classes of o...
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David Steele
In our ongoing series of blog posts designed to help you better run, manage, and support PostgreSQL, today we have a post discussing pgBackRest, a powerful open source tool for managing backups and restores of PostgreSQL databases... pgBackRest aims to be a simple, reliable backup and restore system that can seamlessly scale up to the largest databases and workloads. Instead of relying on traditional backup tools like tar and rsync, pgBackRest implements all backup features internally and uses...
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