Re: nomenclature

Marc G. Fournier wrote:

>On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Michael Glaesemann wrote:
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>>On Jan 16, 2004, at 9:39 PM, Jeff Davis wrote:
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>>>I can't point to any OSS project that completely renames its parts. I
>>>think a shortened version of the name makes sense (in this case
>>>"postgres" works well, but so does "pgsql"), and other projects do
>>>similar things. "Psql" for the client and "postmaster" for the daemon
>>>are the ones that really confuse people, I think.
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>>I'd agree with you there. I think they may be confusing for two
>>different reasons: postmaster because there's no obvious connection
>>(besides POSTmaster and POSTgreSQL)
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>This one I have to agree with also ... 'postmaster' always makes me think
>of the mail system ... *but* ... for those that are dealing with the
>database server, and who many never have seen a mail system in their life,
>the same may not be true ...
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In all honesty, when I first installed Linux system with Postgresql I
couldn't help but wonder why I had two different MTA's.

>The funny thing is that the "postmaster" doesn't really do anything, its
>the postgres process that does all the work ... if you think about it, the
>"postmaster" is actually aptly named, since it is the process that sorts
>out the incoming connections and assigns them to backend processes ...
>just like the postmaster does with your mail ...
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Perhaps postgresd, postgresqld, or pg_daemon might be a little more
intuitive?

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