From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: language cleanups in code and docs
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Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> writes:
> On 15 Jun 2020, at 20:22, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
>> 1) 'postmaster'. As changing that would be somewhat invasive, the word
>> is a bit more ambiguous, and it's largely just internal, I've left
>> this alone for now. I personally would rather see this renamed as
>> supervisor, which'd imo actually would also be a lot more
>> descriptive. I'm willing to do the work, but only if there's at least
>> some agreement.

> FWIW, I've never really liked the name postmaster as I don't think it co=
nveys
> meaning.  I support renaming to supervisor or a similar term.

Meh.  That's carrying PC naming foibles to the point where they
negatively affect our users (by breaking start scripts and such).
I think we should leave this alone.

			regards, tom lane