In Antony,
"less missing", heh. Faint praise! :-)
On Apr 13, 2012, at 9:52 AM, Antony T Curtis wrote:
> Oh cool! There is less missing now.
>
>
> On Apr 12, 2012, at 3:30 PM, Paul DuBois wrote:
>
>>
>> On Feb 5, 2012, at 12:56 PM, Antony T Curtis wrote:
>>
>>> 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:
>>>
>>>> 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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Paul DuBois
Oracle Corporation / MySQL Documentation Team
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
www.mysql.com
