Re: language cleanups in code and docs

On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 7:04 AM Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> wrote:
> > On 15 Jun 2020, at 20:22, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
>
> Thanks for picking this up!
>
> > 1) 'postmaster'. As changing that would be somewhat invasive, the word
> > is a bit more ambiguous, and it's largely just internal, I've left
> > this alone for now. I personally would rather see this renamed as
> > supervisor, which'd imo actually would also be a lot more
> > descriptive. I'm willing to do the work, but only if there's at least
> > some agreement.
>
> FWIW, I've never really liked the name postmaster as I don't think it conveys
> meaning. I support renaming to supervisor or a similar term.

+1. Postmaster has always sounded like a mailer daemon or something,
which we ain't.