Re: Roles for pg_basebackup

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>
Cc: pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Roles for pg_basebackup
Date: 2020-04-28 04:37:55
Message-ID: 20200428043755.GC279958@paquier.xyz
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On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 12:16:41PM +0200, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> Based on a recent conversation about backups I had I propose a small tweak to
> the pg_basebackup documentation. Listing the user types in the reverse order
> from today, putting superuser last, makes it IMO a little clearer that a
> REPLICATION role is preferrable to using a superuser for running backups.

Makes sense to me. We do that in logical-replication.sgml as well as
pg_rewind.sgml (the latter outlines superuser rights last).

Any objections from others?
--
Michael

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