Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 13:37:55 +0900
From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Cc: pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Roles for pg_basebackup
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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?
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Michael

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