Re: language cleanups in code and docs

On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 2:23 AM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 2020-06-15 19:54:25 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> writes:
> > > On 15 Jun 2020, at 20:22, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> > >> 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.
> >
> > Meh. That's carrying PC naming foibles to the point where they
> > negatively affect our users (by breaking start scripts and such).
> > I think we should leave this alone.
>
> 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'd be more worried about for example postmaster.pid, which would break a
*lot* of scripts and integrations. postmaster is also exposed in the system
catalogs.

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