Re: language cleanups in code and docs

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Devrim GUNDUZ <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>
Subject: Re: language cleanups in code and docs
Date: 2020-06-16 13:19:32
Message-ID: 827cfb8a-573b-e17b-e730-5b3407c131cb@2ndQuadrant.com
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On 6/16/20 9:10 AM, Joe Conway wrote:
> On 6/16/20 3:26 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 2:23 AM Andres Freund wrote:
>> postmaster is just a symlink, which we very well could just leave in
>> place... I was really just thinking of the code level stuff. And I think
>> there's some clarity reasons to rename it as well (see comments by
>> others in the thread).
>>
>> Is the symlink even used? If not we could just get rid of it. 
>
> I am pretty sure that last time I checked Devrim was still using it in his
> systemd unit file bundled with the PGDG rpms, although that was probably a
> couple of years ago.
>

Just checked a recent install and it's there.

Honestly, I think I'm with Tom, and we can just let this one alone.

cheers

andrew

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