| From: | Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Karl O(dot) Pinc" <kop(at)karlpinc(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Devrim Gündüz <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: drop postmaster symlink |
| Date: | 2023-01-08 00:33:38 |
| Message-ID: | 0e536d85-2b85-06a7-9051-be1bdf32852e@joeconway.com |
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On 1/7/23 18:38, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Karl O. Pinc" <kop(at)karlpinc(dot)com> 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.
That was my understanding too.
> 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.
+1
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Joe Conway
PostgreSQL Contributors Team
RDS Open Source Databases
Amazon Web Services: https://aws.amazon.com
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