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Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 12:57:26 +0200
From: Erikjan Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
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Subject: Re: I'm surprised to see the word master here
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On 2019-10-02 12:46, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 2019-10-02 10:21, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> Exactly. Both might be accurate, but one comes with a lot less 
>> baggage.
>> 
>>     I support a search and replace. 
>> 
>> I think it'll take a bit more than just a simple "sed script to
>> replace", if that's what you mean. But probably not all that much -- 
>> but
>> there can certainly be cases where nearby langaugae also has to be
>> changed to make it work properly. But I have a hard time seeing it as
>> being a *huge* undertaking.
> 
> I find this proposal to be dubious and unsubstantiated.  Do we need to
> get rid of "multimaster", "postmaster"?
> 

IMHO, hat would seem a bad idea.  Let's not take the politicising too 
far.

I would say leave it at abolishing 'slave' (as we have already done).


thanks,

Erik Rijkers