Re: Roles for pg_basebackup - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Michael Paquier
Subject Re: Roles for pg_basebackup
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Msg-id 20200428043755.GC279958@paquier.xyz
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In response to Roles for pg_basebackup  (Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>)
Responses Re: Roles for pg_basebackup  (Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>)
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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?
--
Michael

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