From: Brendan Jurd <direvus@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, pgsql-docs@postgresql.org, "Bruce Momjian" <bruce@momjian.us>
Subject: Use of "postmaster"
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 08:27:50 +1000
Message-ID: <37ed240d0710031527r5279b336m9dfc0f48a257be90@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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?
I've come across the occasional reference to "postmaster" in the FAQs
and I was thinking that this would confuse newer users. Anyone
getting started with postgres since the rename probably won't know
what a "postmaster" is. Phrases like "check whether the postmaster is
running" won't make any sense.
The manual (16.3 Starting the Database Server, and 1.2 Architectural
Fundamentals) now seems quite clear that "the database server program
is called postgres". Seems it would be best to apply this
nomenclature consistently, and simply drop the name "postmaster" from
use.
Comments?
Regards,
BJ
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