Re: language cleanups in code and docs

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.