Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2019 02:06:53 -0400
From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Dave Cramer <davecramer@gmail.com>, Renee <renee.phillips@gmail.com>,
	pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: I'm surprised to see the word master here
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Greetings,

* Peter Eisentraut (peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com) wrote:
> On 2019-09-25 00:28, Dave Cramer wrote:
> > Ya, I was under that impression as well.=A0
> >=20
> > Dave Cramer
> >=20
> >=20
> > On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 at 18:18, Renee <renee.phillips@gmail.com
> > <mailto:renee.phillips@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >=20
> >     I was under the impression that both terms were being deprecated. Is
> >     that only the case when they appear in tandem?
>=20
> Again, you might be confusing this.  I don't recall any such initiative
> nor do I see any commits to that effect.

Alright then, given we have multiple people asking about this- should we
be considering adopting different language, even if we hadn't previously
had such an initiative?

I know that I tend towards primary/replica when discussing physical
replication, and we do that quite a bit in the documentation (consider
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/warm-standby.html where we seem to be
pretty confused about if we want to talk about the system as a 'primary'
or as a 'master'- but *clearly* primary is winning the war there).

Even if we aren't avoiding the term for its negative connotations
explicitly, having some consistency here strikes me as worthwhile.

Thanks,

Stephen

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