Implementing pgaudit extension on Microsoft Windows

[Niels Jespersen <NJN@xxxxxx>]

Hello all

 

Recent Oracle convert here.

 

Running PostgreSQL 11 on Windows (10 and 2016).

 

Please advise, if I should direct this to another mailinglist or forum.

 

I want to implement detailed object auditing on PostgreSQL. This is what PGAudit extension does. However most advice on this is directed at Linux and friends, which is fair enough. >From Googleing around, it seems it should be possible to compile on Windows, though.

 

And it is. I have compiled pgaudit.dll from the source out of pgaudit version 1.3.

 

And this:

 

Copied pgaudit.dll to C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\11\lib

Copied  pgaudit.control and pgaudit--1.3.sql to C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\11\share\extension

Set shared_preload_libraries = 'pgaudit'

Restart PostgreSQL

Run “CREATE EXTENSION pgaudit;”

alter system set pgaudit.log = 'all';

select pg_reload_conf();

 

Nothing enters the log-file from pgaudit. Creating tables (relations, sorry). Selecting from tables, nothing in the log.

 

I can see that alter system set pgaudit.logx = 'all';  complains about “unrecognized configuration parameter”, so something is known about pgaudit.

 

I can see that postgres.exe has locked pgaudit.dll, so postgreSQL knows it is there, but nothing in the log-file.

 

I need some advice regarding the next steps in my troubleshooting.

 

Regards

 

Niels Jespersen