Re: I'm surprised to see the word master here

Selena Deckelmann <[email protected]> Wed, 2 Oct 2019 08:47:52 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.documentation
Message-ID <CAN1EF+xW6OT=3gWm-40qCC+0KnJ6ag7LcNdYYqKeMjsKfPDioQ@mail.gmail.com>
Hi!

On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 8:06 AM Stephen Frost <[email protected]> wrote:

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> I know that I tend towards primary/replica when discussing physical
> replication, and we do that quite a bit in the documentation (consider
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/warm-standby.html where we seem to be
> pretty confused about if we want to talk about the system as a 'primary'
> or as a 'master'- but *clearly* primary is winning the war there).


It has the advantage of being accurate and with significantly less social
baggage.

I support a search and replace.

-selena