Re: Use of "postmaster"

From: Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com>
To: Brendan Jurd <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Use of "postmaster"
Date: 2007-10-04 01:37:18
Message-ID: 470443CE.70601@cheapcomplexdevices.com
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Brendan Jurd wrote:
> Seems it would be best to apply this
> nomenclature consistently, and simply drop the name "postmaster" from
> use.
>

+1 I agree the term postmaster references in the docs, etc should
go away - with perhaps the exception of one faq that say that
postmaster's a deprecated name in case anyone encounters it
in other web sites or old docs.

PS: Oh it's so hard to resist saying it should be renamed
"postmaSQLter".

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