"Backend server" term usage

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Excerpts from Dmitriy Igrishin's message of dom feb 20 06:19:19 -0300 2011:
>
> > Better, undoubtedly.
> > Another alternative is just "server". Why? Well, for consistency, e.g. with
> > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/errcodes-appendix.html
> > Here you may see phrase "All messages emitted by the PostgreSQL server ..."
> > and furthermore, there are some SQL standard's "SQLSTATE" code
> > which name includes "server" rather than "backend":
> > SQLSERVER REJECTED ESTABLISHMENT OF SQLCONNECTION
> > But anyway, phrase "backend server" is incorrect.
>
> Maybe some cleanup would be good, but in that case please provide a
> specific patch. The replacement suggested in the email that started
> this thread seems OK, but wholesale replacement of the phrase "backend
> server" with something else is likely to introduce as many mistakes as
> it would fix. For example, the description of postgres' -T switch would
> then be wrong.
>
> I think using the protocol chapter as reference for terms to use is a
> bad idea -- it's one of the most obscure chapters in the documentation.

OK, attached is my proposed patch; it mostly changes "backend server"
to "backend process".

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