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Re: drop postmaster symlink

Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>

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From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Devrim Gündüz <devrim@gunduz.org>, Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-11-24T00:15:03Z
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> On 23 Nov 2022, at 21:10, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't actually care very much whether we get rid of the postmaster
> symlink or not, but if we aren't going to, we should stop calling it
> deprecated. If 15 years isn't enough time to remove it, what ever will
> be?

+1.  If we actively add support for something then it isn't really all that
deprecated IMHO.

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Daniel Gustafsson		https://vmware.com/

Commits

  1. doc: Adjust a few more references to "postmaster"

  2. Don't install postmaster symlink anymore

  3. Remove gratuitous references to postmaster program