Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system

On 2019-03-27 18:09, Tom Lane wrote:
> My recollection of the discussion is that people argued that "postmaster"
> might be taken to have something to do with an e-mail server, and
> therefore we needed to stop using that name.  The lack of either follow-on
> complaints or follow-on action doesn't make me too well disposed to
> what is essentially that same argument over again.

The reason there was that the distinction was mostly useless and the
different command-line option parsing was confusing.  The name itself
was confusing but not in conflict with anything.

However, we do know that we are very bad at actually getting rid of
deprecated things.

How about we compromise in this thread and remove postmaster and leave
everything else as is. ;-)

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