Re: Roles for pg_basebackup

On 2020/04/28 13:37, Michael Paquier wrote:
> 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).

Seems there are other documentations having the similar description,
for example, pg_receivewal.sgml, func.sgml and high-availability.sgml.
Isn't it better to update also them at the same time?

> Any objections from others?

No.

Regards,

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