On Mon, Oct 7, 2019, 21:51 Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 10:49:54AM +1300, Mike Taves wrote: > > On Sat, 5 Oct 2019 at 10:57, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: > > > With master/standby-replica-slave, it is clear what multi-master is, > and > > > what master/replica is. If you start using active-active, is it > > > active/replica? The full choices are: ... > > > > There are more choices. Coming from a different corner of computing, > > we have changed these computing resource names to other > > anthropomorphic titles found around office environments: "manager" and > > either "worker" or "agent". With these names, some derived terms are > > "multi-manager" and "standby-replica-worker". > > I think the problem is that "worker" doesn't have the idea that it is a > copy of the primary, which replica and standby kind of do. On the other > hand, worker and slave seem almost identical, and you are right they > don't have the concept of being a copy either. :-( I guess I was > hoping to move to a term that had _copy_ built into the term. >
Also some might find the use of the word "worker" to be Capitalist anti-labor propaganda and thus offensive. This road leads to the circular firing squad. Let is try to be reasonably neutral politically. > > -- > Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us > EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com > > + As you are, so once was I. As I am, so you will be. + > + Ancient Roman grave inscription + > > >
