Re: I'm surprised to see the word master here - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: I'm surprised to see the word master here
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In response to Re: I'm surprised to see the word master here  (Selena Deckelmann <selena@maxipad.org>)
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> On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 8:59 AM Selena Deckelmann <selena@maxipad.org> wrote:

Hi!

Whoa! That was a long time ago. Welcome back! :)

Hi!
 


On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 8:06 AM Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:


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).

+1 for consistency. And since we're already in an inconsistent state, it seems only logical in which direction to change to make it consistent. 


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


Exactly. Both might be accurate, but one comes with a lot less baggage.


I support a search and replace. 

I think it'll take a bit more than just a simple "sed script to replace", if that's what you mean. But probably not all that much -- but there can certainly be cases where nearby langaugae also has to be changed to make it work properly. But I have a hard time seeing it as being a *huge* undertaking.

//Magnus

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