Daniel Gustafsson <dan...@yesql.se> writes: > On 15 Jun 2020, at 20:22, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.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. regards, tom lane