Re: Terms.

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Excerpts from Dmitriy Igrishin's message of lun sep 20 15:52:43 -0400 2010:
> > Hey Bruce,
> >
> > Its interesting indeed, because I always wanted to know why libpq
> > named "libpq". Thanks!
> > But I wrote not about libpq functions, I just wanted to say about
> > unnecessary (IMO) redundancy - the combinations of terms "backend server"
> > seems to me inaccuracy.
>
> could be, but we're already using that term elsewhere.  Maybe we should
> consistently use some other term.
>
>
> $ git grep 'backend server'
>
> doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml:  backend server and to receive the results of these queries.
> doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml:   <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> backend server.  An
> doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml:       server process</><tertiary>in libpq</></> of the backend server
> doc/src/sgml/problems.sgml:   Here <quote>program</quote> refers to any executable, not only the backend server.
> doc/src/sgml/problems.sgml:   are specifically talking about the backend server, mention that, do not
> doc/src/sgml/problems.sgml:   backend server process is quite different from crash of the parent
> doc/src/sgml/query.sgml:    backend server machine, not the client, since the backend server
> doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_ctl-ref.sgml:   backend server (<xref linkend="app-postgres">), or displaying the
> src/backend/libpq/pqsignal.c: * the frontend commands as well as the backend server.
> src/backend/main/main.c:    printf(_("  -T              send SIGSTOP to all backend servers if one dies\n"));
> src/backend/po/de.po:msgid "  -T              send SIGSTOP to all backend servers if one dies\n"
> src/backend/po/es.po:msgid "  -T              send SIGSTOP to all backend servers if one dies\n"
> src/backend/po/fr.po:msgid "  -T              send SIGSTOP to all backend servers if one dies\n"
> src/backend/po/ja.po:msgid "  -T              send SIGSTOP to all backend servers if one dies\n"
> src/backend/po/pt_BR.po:msgid "  -T              send SIGSTOP to all backend servers if one dies\n"
> src/backend/po/tr.po:msgid "  -T              send SIGSTOP to all backend servers if one dies\n"
> src/bin/psql/settings.h:    int         sversion;       /* backend server version */
> src/test/examples/testlibpq4.c: pghost = NULL;              /* host name of the backend server */
> src/test/examples/testlibpq4.c: pgport = NULL;              /* port of the backend server */
> src/test/examples/testlibpq4.c: pgtty = NULL;               /* debugging tty for the backend server */

Any ideas on this?  Is "backend" better than "backend server"?

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