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

From: Selena Deckelmann <selena(at)maxipad(dot)org>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Cc: Dave Cramer <davecramer(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Renee <renee(dot)phillips(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: I'm surprised to see the word master here
Date: 2019-10-02 06:47:52
Message-ID: CAN1EF+xW6OT=3gWm-40qCC+0KnJ6ag7LcNdYYqKeMjsKfPDioQ@mail.gmail.com
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Hi!

On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 8:06 AM Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:

>
>
> I know that I tend towards primary/replica when discussing physical
> replication, and we do that quite a bit in the documentation (consider
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/warm-standby.html where we seem to be
> pretty confused about if we want to talk about the system as a 'primary'
> or as a 'master'- but *clearly* primary is winning the war there).

It has the advantage of being accurate and with significantly less social
baggage.

I support a search and replace.

-selena

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