Oh cool! There is less missing now.
On Apr 12, 2012, at 3:30 PM, Paul DuBois wrote:
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> On Feb 5, 2012, at 12:56 PM, Antony T Curtis wrote:
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>> MySQL 5.5 has some audit functionality.
>>
>> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/writing-audit-plugins.html
>>
>> However, It's not "all there". If you look at the mysql bk-commits email list at
> around Jan-April 2008, there are additional patches which hook into many parts of MySQL,
> including all the phases of connection and authentication.
>
> So if you compare the URL above to the corresponding one in the 5.6 manual:
>
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/writing-audit-plugins.html
>
> You'll see that the example audit plugin can track more kinds of events. Compare the
> two versions beginning with this paragraph:
>
> "The general descriptor also refers to simple_status, a structure that exposes
> several status variables to the SHOW STATUS statement:"
>
>> Regards,
>> Antony.
>>
>> On 5 Feb, 2012, at 1:28 am, Aruna Karunarathna wrote:
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>>> I think that MySQL database is suffers from lacking a proper Audit
>>> Functionality.
>>> I would like to contribute in a way to enable a better audit trail.
>>>
>>> Are there any suggestions or a particular group I should added to?
>
> --
> Paul DuBois
> Oracle Corporation / MySQL Documentation Team
> Madison, Wisconsin, USA
> www.mysql.com
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