Re: drop postmaster symlink

On 1/7/23 18:38, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Karl O. Pinc" <kop@karlpinc.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

-- 
Joe Conway
PostgreSQL Contributors Team
RDS Open Source Databases
Amazon Web Services: https://aws.amazon.com