"Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org> writes:
> if you think about it, the "postmaster" is actually aptly named,
> since it is the process that sorts out the incoming connections and
> assigns them to backend processes ... just like the postmaster does
> with your mail ...
Right, hence the witty pun :-)
IMHO this whole debate is largely academic: it really wouldn't be
practical to start renaming components at this point, whether they are
perfectly named or not.
-Neil
