From 44d1dd4353ef38e4fb5972973255f88336b1cccd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2026 09:53:11 +0200
Subject: [PATCH v1] Document "io worker" as possible backend_type

The documentation of pg_stat_activity lists all possible values for
the backend type, but when I/O workers were added, the list was not
amended.

Author: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
---
 doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index d1a20d001e9..632ae7e345d 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -1059,7 +1059,7 @@ postgres   27093  0.0  0.0  30096  2752 ?        Ss   11:34   0:00 postgres: ser
       <para>
        Type of current backend. Possible types are
        <literal>autovacuum launcher</literal>, <literal>autovacuum worker</literal>,
-       <literal>logical replication launcher</literal>,
+       <literal>io worker</literal>, <literal>logical replication launcher</literal>,
        <literal>logical replication worker</literal>,
        <literal>parallel worker</literal>, <literal>background writer</literal>,
        <literal>client backend</literal>, <literal>checkpointer</literal>,
-- 
2.55.0