On 6/16/20 9:10 AM, Joe Conway wrote:
> On 6/16/20 3:26 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 2:23 AM Andres Freund wrote:
>> postmaster is just a symlink, which we very well could just leave in
>> place... I was really just thinking of the code level stuff. And I think
>> there's some clarity reasons to rename it as well (see comments by
>> others in the thread).
>>
>> Is the symlink even used? If not we could just get rid of it.
>
> I am pretty sure that last time I checked Devrim was still using it in his
> systemd unit file bundled with the PGDG rpms, although that was probably a
> couple of years ago.
>
Just checked a recent install and it's there.
Honestly, I think I'm with Tom, and we can just let this one alone.
cheers
andrew
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