pgaudit

Overview

PGDG 1st Party Extension: pgaudit : provides auditing functionality

Information

• Extension ID: 7080
• Extension Name: pgaudit
• Package Name: pgaudit
• Category: SEC
• License: PostgreSQL
• Website: https://github.com/pgaudit/pgaudit
• Language: C
• Extra Tags: N/A
• Comment:

Metadata

• Latest Version: 17.1
• Postgres Support: 17,16,15,14,13
• Need Load: Explicit Loading Required
• Need DDL: Need CREATE EXTENSION DDL
• Relocatable: Can not install to arbitrary schema
• Trusted: Untrusted, Require Superuser to Create
• Schemas: N/A
• Requires: N/A

RPM / DEB

• RPM Repo: PGDG
• RPM Name: pgaudit_$v*
• RPM Ver : 17.0
• RPM Deps: N/A
• DEB Repo: PGDG
• DEB Name: postgresql-$v-pgaudit
• DEB Ver : 17.0
• DEB Deps: N/A

Availability

Installation

Install pgaudit via the pig CLI tool:

pig ext install pgaudit

./pgsql.yml -t pg_extension -e '{"pg_extensions": ["pgaudit"]}'   # common case
./pgsql.yml -t pg_extension -e '{"pg_extensions": ["pgaudit17"]}' # pg15 @ el
./pgsql.yml -t pg_extension -e '{"pg_extensions": ["pgaudit16"]}' # pg14 @ el
./pgsql.yml -t pg_extension -e '{"pg_extensions": ["pgaudit15"]}' # pg13 @ el

Install pgaudit RPM from YUM repo directly:

dnf install pgaudit_17*;
dnf install pgaudit_16*;
dnf install pgaudit_15*;
dnf install pgaudit_14*;
dnf install pgaudit_13*;

Install pgaudit DEB from APT repo directly:

apt install postgresql-17-pgaudit;
apt install postgresql-16-pgaudit;
apt install postgresql-15-pgaudit;
apt install postgresql-14-pgaudit;
apt install postgresql-13-pgaudit;

Extension pgaudit has to be loaded via shared_preload_libraries

shared_preload_libraries = 'pgaudit'; # add to pg cluster config

Create pgaudit extension on PostgreSQL cluster:

CREATE EXTENSION pgaudit;