Re: Add "io worker" as backend_type to the pg_stat_activity documentation - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Laurenz Albe
Subject Re: Add "io worker" as backend_type to the pg_stat_activity documentation
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Msg-id 659d0c76d86b5f0e4c37071ac7a7e2fd3efd9fdb.camel@cybertec.at
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In response to Re: Add "io worker" as backend_type to the pg_stat_activity documentation  (Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>)
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On Wed, 2026-07-22 at 18:34 +0900, Fujii Masao wrote:
> a couple of minor comments:
>
> +          <literal>archiver</literal>: The WAL archiver, active when
> +          <xref linkend="guc-archive-mode"/> is <literal>on</literal>.
>
> The archiver is also active when archive_mode = always. So isn't it better
> to say "active when archive_mode is enabled" (as in the Glossary), or
> "when archive_mode is on or always"?

True.  I went with "enabled".

> +          <literal>logical replication launcher</literal>: The background
> +          process that launches logical replication worker processes for
> +          subscriptions.
> +         </para>
> +        </listitem>
> +        <listitem>
> +         <para>
> +          <literal>logical replication apply worker</literal>: A background
> +          process that applies data modifications on a logical subscriber.
>
> If these entries are meant to be in alphabetical order, shouldn't
> "logical replication apply worker" come before "logical replication launcher"?

I must have picked the wrong collation :^/

v4 is attached.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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