| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: language cleanups in code and docs |
| Date: | 2020-06-16 13:30:09 |
| Message-ID: | 1299304.1592314209@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> I'd be more worried about for example postmaster.pid, which would break a
> *lot* of scripts and integrations. postmaster is also exposed in the system
> catalogs.
Oooh, that's an excellent point. A lot of random stuff knows that file
name.
To be clear, I'm not against removing incidental uses of the word
"master". But the specific case of "postmaster" seems a little too
far ingrained to be worth changing.
regards, tom lane
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