Re: [PATCHES] postmaster/postgres merge for testing

Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> 
>>Attached is a patch that merges postmaster and postgres into just a 
>>postmaster command.
> 
> 
> I had some second thoughts about this, specifically about which
> direction do we really want to go in.  With this patch, it no longer
> really matters what the executable file is named, right?  We were both
> implicitly assuming that the name should end up being "postmaster",
> but I think there's a good case to be made that the right thing to do
> is to migrate in the direction of having just one executable named
> "postgres".  We've seen complaints before that having a daemon named
> "postmaster" confuses newbies into thinking it's got something to do
> with mail.  And it's already the case that the child processes all call
> themselves "postgres", which will become even more confusing if there is
> no longer any executable named "postgres".
> 
> If we went in this direction we'd have to keep the installed
> postmaster->postgres symlink for awhile to avoid breaking existing
> start scripts, but it could be deprecated and then removed in a few
> releases.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
>

+1 postgres (having the executable name matching the default os 
superuser and database accounts seems logical).