There would be no need to remove anything if we just renamed the executable and created symlinks for them.
On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 10:20 PM Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentr...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > > 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. ;-) > > -- > Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ > PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
