From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>
Subject: Re: language cleanups in code and docs
To: Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>,
 Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>,
 PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>,
 Devrim GUNDUZ <devrim@gunduz.org>
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On 6/16/20 9:10 AM, Joe Conway wrote:
> On 6/16/20 3:26 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 2:23 AM Andres Freund wrote:
>>     postmaster is just a symlink, which we very well could just leave in
>>     place... I was really just thinking of the code level stuff. And I think
>>     there's some clarity reasons to rename it as well (see comments by
>>     others in the thread).
>>
>> Is the symlink even used? If not we could just get rid of it. 
>
> I am pretty sure that last time I checked Devrim was still using it in his
> systemd unit file bundled with the PGDG rpms, although that was probably a
> couple of years ago.
>


Just checked a recent install and it's there.


Honestly, I think I'm with Tom, and we can just let this one alone.


cheers


andrew


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