Hello.
Have a question on packaging Barman PostgreSQL backup manager.

Usually when providing software we expect that it works at least in some way with minimal manual configuration. However, it seems barman suggests accessing PostgreSQL data directories using rsync+ssh. By default this attempt will fail (even if ssh is configured in a necessary way), because postgres is a role, not a user (and to find out what's wrong may be problematic, for example, for me it took about an hour to configure minimal barman installation and find out what's wrong).

So I have a question - what's better?
Deliver just software (and perhaps a note in a wiki) and allow user to find all pitfalls himself or at least change postgres to be a user (not a role) with perhaps some incompatibility disadvantage and not so secure configuration by default...
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Best regards,
Alexander Pyhalov,
system administrator of Computer Center of Southern Federal University

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