Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> writes: > I'd be more worried about for example postmaster.pid, which would break a > *lot* of scripts and integrations. postmaster is also exposed in the system > catalogs.
Oooh, that's an excellent point. A lot of random stuff knows that file name. To be clear, I'm not against removing incidental uses of the word "master". But the specific case of "postmaster" seems a little too far ingrained to be worth changing. regards, tom lane