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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Karl O. Pinc <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Gustafsson <[email protected]>
Cc: Robert Haas <[email protected]>
Cc: Andres Freund <[email protected]>
Cc: Devrim Gündüz <[email protected]>
Cc: Joe Conway <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: drop postmaster symlink
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2023 18:38:25 -0500
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"Karl O. Pinc" <[email protected]> writes:
> This is a review of Peter's 2 patches.  I see only 1 small problem.

> Looking at the documentation, a "postmaster" in the glossary is
> defined as the controlling process.  This works; it needs to be called
> something.  There is still a postmaster.pid (etc.) in the data
> directory.

> The word "postmaster" (case insensitive) shows up 84 times in the
> documentation.  I looked at all of these.  

Hmm ... I thought this patch was about getting rid of the
admittedly-obsolete installed symlink.  If it's trying to get rid of
the "postmaster" terminology for our parent process, I'm very strongly
against that, either as regards to code or documentation.

			regards, tom lane

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