Re: Add "io worker" as backend_type to the pg_stat_activity documentation

On Tue, 2026-07-21 at 17:02 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2026 at 09:58:34AM +0200, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> > I happened to notice that "io worker" was missing in the list of
> > backend types in the pg_stat_activity documentation.
>
> Right.
>
> > I wondered vaguely if the list should be sorted alphabetically,
> > but didn't do it a) to keep the patch easy to read and
> > b) because the list is not long enough for readers to get lost.
>
> And here I just thought while looking at this section of the docs that
> the list is super long, and that we could reshape it the same way as
> "state" for the possible values, sorting it on the way.

Ok, here is a patch with the list sorted alphabetically and
converted into an itemiized list.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe