postgres-audit-triggers 1.2.1

Description:

postgresaudittriggers 1.2.1

Postgres audit database via triggers
This app sets up a postgres audit database via triggers.
See https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Audit_trigger_91plus
and https://github.com/2ndQuadrant/audit-trigger/
for more information.
Installation
pip install postgres_audit_triggers
Usage

Add the postgres_audit_triggers app to INSTALLED_APPS before any apps that will be audited:

# settings.py
INSTALLED_APPS = {
'django.contrib.postgres',
'postgres_audit_triggers',
...
}


Install the postgres_audit_triggers middleware:

# settings.py
MIDDLEWARE = [
...
'postgres_audit_triggers.middleware.AuditMiddleware',
]

This middleware will add metadata to the audit row. To send metadata, the client must send a
Postgres-Audit-Triggers-Meta header in the request to your Django view. The data within
that header must be JSON serializable to a python dictionary.


Run migrations: python manage.py migrate postgres_audit_triggers


Add audit_trigger = True to the Model Meta options of the models that will be audited:


# models.py
class MyAuditedModel(models.Model):
...
class Meta:
audit_trigger = True
...


Make migrations: python manage.py makemigrations
Run migrations: python manage.py migrate

Triggers introduce performance overhead. In certain cases, you may need to disable triggers while
performing bulk operations. To turn off all triggers, a decorator is provided:
from postgres_audit_triggers.decorators import disable_triggers


@disable_triggers
def foo():
# auditing will not be triggered on any database operations performed here
Bar.objects.bulk_create(items)