Re: pg_rewind vs superuser

On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 12:43 PM Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 10:18:45AM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > Looks good. Maybe we should list the "role having sufficient permissions"
> > before superuser, "just because", but not something I feel strongly
> about.
>
> Listing the superuser after sounds fine to me.
>
> > The part about CHECKPOINT also looks pretty good, but that's entirely
> > unrelated, right? :)
>
> Completely unrelated, but as we are on this part of the documentation
> now, and as we discussed that stuff face-to-face last September where
> I actually promised to write a patch without doing it for seven
> months, I see no problems to tackle this issue as well now. Better
> later than never :)
>

:) Nope, I definitely think we need to include that.

I would like to apply this down to 9.5 for the checkpoint part and
> down to 11 for the role part, so if anybody has any comments, please
> feel free.
>

All of it, or just the checkpoint part? I assume just the checkpoint part?
AFAIK it does require superuser in those earlier versions?

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