#22667: Replace occurrences of master/slave terminology with leader/follower
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Reporter: fcurella | Owner: nobody
Type: | Status: closed
Cleanup/optimization | Version: 1.6
Component: Documentation | Resolution: fixed
Severity: Normal | Triage Stage:
Keywords: | Unreviewed
Has patch: 1 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Comment (by erikr):
I can definitely see the point of this ticket, but I'm worried that this
particular change significantly reduces the readability of the
documentation, especially for those less familiar with database
terminology or not native English. Personally, I had never heard of
leader/follower in the context of SQL replication before, and I'm not sure
how fast I would have figured out, if I had not seen this ticket. In
addition, we've also replaced all references to master in the multi-db
support, where it does not seem to be used in master/slave context.
[[http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/high-
availability.html|PostgreSQL]] uses master/slave or primary/standby, and
[[http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/replication.html|MySQL]] only
uses master/slave. [[https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-
postgres-follower-databases|Heroku]] mixes follower and slave. I've also
heard replica in the past, which is my favourite (standby suggests cold to
me).
Suggestion: use the terminology master and replica. On the first use of
replica in each document, add: "(referred to as slave or standby by some
databases)". That seems like a good middle ground to me between avoiding
problematic historical associations and keeping our documentation readable
and understandable, even by those new to development or not being native
English speakers.
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