Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> I'd be more worried about for example postmaster.pid, which would break a
> *lot* of scripts and integrations. postmaster is also exposed in the system
> catalogs.
Oooh, that's an excellent point. A lot of random stuff knows that file
name.
To be clear, I'm not against removing incidental uses of the word
"master". But the specific case of "postmaster" seems a little too
far ingrained to be worth changing.
regards, tom lane