Re: Confusing terminology - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Confusing terminology
Date
Msg-id 200201182012.g0IKCP210605@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Confusing terminology  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-hackers
> While this is certainly project-specific language, it's useful to people
> who may actually have to look at the code; and if they're reading
> documentation that is talking about the parts of the server in the first
> place, they're not that far away from wanting to look at code.  I don't
> think that
> 
>     After receiving a connection request, the server spawns
>     a session process to handle that client session.
> 
> is an improvement --- it seems more to have reduced the concept to a
> tautology.  (Also, as seen here, I don't care for using "session"
> to describe a process.  A session is a different sort of animal.)

Yes, I feel session is something that exists between the client and the
server.  It is not a server-only concept.

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