PostgreSQL Setting up Streaming Replication walk thru

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Weird that they decided to use the controversial master/slave terminology when the Postgres community at large has been calling it master/standby since at least 2010 [1].

I don’t have strong opinions on the issue, but it’s a curious choice to go with terminology not only controversial, but non-standard for the product.

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/4BFE7213.80603@enterpr...

Master slave has been a term in computer science forever. I don't see what the problem is.

(HINT: HUMOR)

Well, you're clearly not woke then.

https://www.facebook.com/bbccomedy/videos/you-woke-tbtn/1015...

(HINT: HUMOR)

When those words first became common the people for whom they are painful were not as plentiful in the field. The painful meaning of those words far predates the existence of computers.

The lack of foresight of the coiners is not an excuse for current callousness.

Only controversial to people who enjoy bike shredding flame wars.

Possibly. On the other hand using master/stand-by instead of master/slave is almost no effort so you might as well.

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