Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.187]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C71399F97F5; Mon, 8 Oct 2007 22:28:57 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.187]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 87178-08; Mon, 8 Oct 2007 22:28:44 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from momjian.us (momjian.us [70.90.9.53]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E67929F949D; Mon, 8 Oct 2007 22:28:49 -0300 (ADT) Received: (from bruce@localhost) by momjian.us (8.11.6/8.11.6) id l991Smk16058; Mon, 8 Oct 2007 21:28:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Bruce Momjian Message-Id: <200710090128.l991Smk16058@momjian.us> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Use of "postmaster" In-Reply-To: <37ed240d0710031654m3f4ade9di4f0dfa87f21e8084@mail.gmail.com> To: Brendan Jurd Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 21:28:48 -0400 (EDT) CC: Tom Lane , pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, pgsql-docs@postgresql.org, pgsql-patches@postgresql.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL124 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200710/25 X-Sequence-Number: 4446 Patch applied. Thanks. Your documentation changes can be viewed on our web site shortly. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brendan Jurd wrote: > On 10/4/07, Tom Lane wrote: > > "Brendan Jurd" 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 [ Attachment, skipping... ] > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend -- Bruce Momjian http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://postgres.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +