On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 2:50 PM Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > On 2022-11-23 10:07:49 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > > Devrim =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=FCnd=FCz?= <dev...@gunduz.org> writes: > > > ...and it helps us to find the "main" process a bit easily. > > > > Hmm, that's a nontrivial point perhaps. It's certain that this > > will break some other people's start scripts too. > > OTOH, postmaster has been deprecated for ~15 years.
Yeah. Also, I don't think it's generally too hard to find the parent process anyway, because at least on my system, the other ones end up with ps display that looks like "postgres: logical replication launcher" or whatever. The main process doesn't set the ps status display, so that's the only one that shows a full path to the executable in the ps status, which is how I usually spot it. That has the advantage that it doesn't matter which name was used to launch it, too. I don't actually care very much whether we get rid of the postmaster symlink or not, but if we aren't going to, we should stop calling it deprecated. If 15 years isn't enough time to remove it, what ever will be? I tend to think it's fairly pointless and perhaps also a bit confusing, because the product is postgres not postmaster and people can reasonably expect the binary name to match the product name. But if we keep it, I don't think anything too dire will happen, either. -- Robert Haas EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com