From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: language cleanups in code and docs
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2020 18:35:18 -0400
Message-ID: <20200615223518.GD12121@momjian.us> (raw)
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On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 09:53:34AM +1200, Thomas Munro wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 7:04 AM Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> wrote:
> > > On 15 Jun 2020, at 20:22, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for picking this up!
> >
> > > 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 conveys
> > meaning. I support renaming to supervisor or a similar term.
>
> +1. Postmaster has always sounded like a mailer daemon or something,
> which we ain't.
Postmaster is historically confused with the postmaster email account:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmaster_(computing)
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