pgAudit Log to File is an addon to pgAudit than will redirect audit log lines to an independent file, instead of using PostgreSQL server logger.

This will allow us to have an audit file that we can easily rotate without polluting server logs with those messages.

Audit logs in heavily used systems can grow very fast. This extension allows to automatically rotate the files based in a number of minutes.

make install USE_PGXS=1

• Build the extension
• Add pgauditlogtofile to "shared_preload_libraries" in postgresql.conf
• Restart PostgreSQL to reload new shared library
• Create extension in postgres database (like pgaudit we don't need to create it in all the databases)

postgres=# CREATE EXTENSION pgauditlogtofile;

Name of the directory where the audit file will be created.

Scope: System

Default: 'log'

Empty or NULL will disable the extension and the audit logging will be done to PostgreSQL server logger.

Name of the file where the audit will be written. Writing to an existing file will append the new entries.

This variable can contain time patterns up to minute to allow automatic rotation.

Scope: System

Default: 'audit-%Y%m%d_%H%M.log'

Empty or NULL will disable the extension and the audit logging will be done to PostgreSQL server logger.

Number of minutes after which the audit file will be rotated.

Scope: System

Default: 1440 minutes (1 day)

0 will disable the rotation

Intercepts server log messages emited when log_connections is on

Scope: System

Default: off

Requires: log_connections = on

Intercepts server log messages emited when log_disconnections is on

Scope: System

Default: off

Requires: log_disconnections = on

cd test
vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest
vagrant up