Re: I'm surprised to see the word master here

On Mon, Oct 7, 2019, 21:51 Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 10:49:54AM +1300, Mike Taves wrote:
> > On Sat, 5 Oct 2019 at 10:57, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> > > With master/standby-replica-slave, it is clear what multi-master is,
> and
> > > what master/replica is. If you start using active-active, is it
> > > active/replica? The full choices are: ...
> >
> > There are more choices. Coming from a different corner of computing,
> > we have changed these computing resource names to other
> > anthropomorphic titles found around office environments: "manager" and
> > either "worker" or "agent". With these names, some derived terms are
> > "multi-manager" and "standby-replica-worker".
>
> I think the problem is that "worker" doesn't have the idea that it is a
> copy of the primary, which replica and standby kind of do. On the other
> hand, worker and slave seem almost identical, and you are right they
> don't have the concept of being a copy either. :-( I guess I was
> hoping to move to a term that had _copy_ built into the term.
>

Also some might find the use of the word "worker" to be Capitalist
anti-labor propaganda and thus offensive. This road leads to the circular
firing squad. Let is try to be reasonably neutral politically.

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