> On 28 Apr 2020, at 07:22, Fujii Masao <masao.fu...@oss.nttdata.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. cheers ./daniel
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