Hi, On 2020-06-15 19:54:25 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > 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.
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). Anyway, for now my focus is on patches in the series... - Andres
