From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Jeff Laing <jeff.laing@spatialnetworx.ai>
cc: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: BUG #19392: PG_UPGRADE is non-functional on Windows
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Jeff Laing <jeff.laing@spatialnetworx.ai> writes:
> From: David G. Johnston david.g.johnston@gmail.com<mailto:david.g.johnst=
on@gmail.com>
>> Postmaster is the name of the executable that is the server program.

> Perhaps on Unix, but I don=E2=80=99t think it is on Windows?

There hasn't been a "postmaster" executable on Unix either for a few
years now.  But we still use that terminology for the server's topmost
process.  See

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/connect-estab.html

			regards, tom lane