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From Lee Kindness
Subject nomenclature
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Msg-id 16391.50765.99377.552325@kelvin.csl.co.uk
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Responses Re: nomenclature  (Michael Glaesemann <grzm@myrealbox.com>)
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Just overheard one of my colleagues on the phone to one of our users
taking them through the process of moving their PGDATA to a partition
with space...

With the various paths, service names, config files and environment
variables PostgreSQL appears to have a multiple-personality
disorder... Is it:
   postgresql (/etc/init.d/postgresql, postgresql.conf),or postmaster (main postmaster process),or postgres   (postgres
user),orpgsql      (/var/lib/pgsql),or psql       (psql SQL terminal),or pg         (PG* environment variables, pg_*
files)?

I guess the point of this email is to point out the current
proliferation of terms is not user friendly. Any plans/interest in
standardisation?

Thanks, Lee.


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