Re: language cleanups in code and docs

On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 09:53:34AM +1200, Thomas Munro wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 7:04 AM Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> wrote:
> > > On 15 Jun 2020, at 20:22, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for picking this up!
> >
> > > 1) 'postmaster'. As changing that would be somewhat invasive, the word
> > >   is a bit more ambiguous, and it's largely just internal, I've left
> > >   this alone for now. I personally would rather see this renamed as
> > >   supervisor, which'd imo actually would also be a lot more
> > >   descriptive. I'm willing to do the work, but only if there's at least
> > >   some agreement.
> >
> > FWIW, I've never really liked the name postmaster as I don't think it conveys
> > meaning.  I support renaming to supervisor or a similar term.
> 
> +1.  Postmaster has always sounded like a mailer daemon or something,
> which we ain't.

Postmaster is historically confused with the postmaster email account:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmaster_(computing)

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