Auditing User Access in Postgres Databases for Security Compliance

Security compliance audits are a reality for any production PostgreSQL environment. Whether you’re dealing with SOC 2, HIPAA, or PCI-DSS, auditors want to know: who has access to what?

In this deep dive, we walk through how to systematically audit user access in PostgreSQL — from role hierarchies to object-level privileges — and how to produce reports that satisfy compliance requirements.

What You’ll Learn

• Inspecting role memberships and inheritance chains
• Querying object-level privileges (tables, schemas, functions)
• Identifying overly permissive grants
• Building automated access reports
• Row-Level Security as an additional compliance layer

Watch the Full Walkthrough

The complete 24-minute tutorial is embedded above.