> On 28 Apr 2020, at 07:22, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@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
