Re: language cleanups in code and docs

Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org>

From: "Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz@postgresql.org>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-06-17T13:32:55Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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On 6/17/20 6:32 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:

> In looking at this I realize we also have exactly one thing referred to
> as "blacklist" in our codebase, which is the "enum blacklist" (and then
> a small internal variable in pgindent). AFAICT, it's not actually
> exposed to userspace anywhere, so we could probably make the attached
> change to blocklist at no "cost" (the only thing changed is the name of
> the hash table, and we definitely change things like that in normal
> releases with no specific thought on backwards compat).

+1. Though if we are doing that, we should also handle "whitelist" too,
as this attached patch does. It's mostly in comments (with one Perl
variable), but I switched the language around to use "allowed"

Jonathan

Commits

  1. Replace remaining uses of "whitelist".

  2. pgindent: whitelist/blacklist -> additional/excluded.

  3. Rename "enum blacklist" to "uncommitted enums".

  4. code: replace most remaining uses of 'master'.

  5. docs: replace 'master process' with 'supervisor process' where appropriate.

  6. docs: replace 'master' with 'root' where appropriate.

  7. docs: replace 'master' with 'primary' where appropriate.

  8. code: replace 'master' with 'leader' where appropriate.

  9. code: replace 'master' with 'primary' where appropriate.

  10. tap tests: replace 'master' with 'primary'.