Re: Roles for pg_basebackup

On 2020/04/28 17:15, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>> On 28 Apr 2020, at 07:22, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)oss(dot)nttdata(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>
> That doe make sense. I've updated the places where I think a user configuring
> the system might conceivably infer a preference from the order, but have left
> the other ones as is.

Thanks for updating the patch! It looks good to me.

Regards,

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Fujii Masao
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