From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Brendan Jurd <direvus@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Cc: pgsql-patches@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Use of "postmaster"
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 21:28:48 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <200710090128.l991Smk16058@momjian.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <37ed240d0710031654m3f4ade9di4f0dfa87f21e8084@mail.gmail.com>
Patch applied. Thanks. Your documentation changes can be viewed on our
web site shortly.
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Brendan Jurd wrote:
> On 10/4/07, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > "Brendan Jurd" <direvus@gmail.com> writes:
> > > Now that we've renamed the server binary to "postgres", what is the
> > > status on use of the name "postmaster"? Is it now deprecated? And if
> > > not, is there any point in keeping it around?
> >
> > We should replace it by terms like "server" in contexts where it's
> > not actually important to the reader which process is involved,
> > but I think Peter's hit most of them already ...
>
> Looks like Peter got the sgml sources pretty well cleaned up, but
> didn't touch the FAQs.
>
> The attached patch replaces some more references to "postmaster" in
> the FAQs. Per Tom's guidance, I only replaced those references where
> I felt a distinction between the postmaster and its children wasn't
> important to the reader.
>
> Thanks for your time,
> BJ
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