On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 09:53:34AM +1200, Thomas Munro wrote: > On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 7:04 AM Daniel Gustafsson <dan...@yesql.se> wrote: > > > On 15 Jun 2020, at 20:22, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.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.
Postmaster is historically confused with the postmaster email account: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmaster_(computing) -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> https://momjian.us EnterpriseDB https://enterprisedb.com The usefulness of a cup is in its emptiness, Bruce Lee