On Thu, Mar 09, 2023 at 06:51:21PM +0100, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> I'd rather make all these other places use "instance" instead. We used
> to consider these terms interchangeable, but since we introduced the
> glossary to unify the terminology, they are no longer supposed to be.
> A server (== a machine) can contain many instances, and each individual
> instance in the server could be using huge pages or not.
Ah, good to know. I've always considered "server" in this context to mean
the server process(es) for a single instance, but I can see the value in
having different terminology to clearly distinguish the process(es) from
the machine.
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Nathan Bossart
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