> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > Excerpts from Dmitriy Igrishin's message of dom feb 20 06:19:19 -0300 2011:
> >
> > > Better, undoubtedly.
> > > Another alternative is just "server". Why? Well, for consistency, e.g. with
> > >
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/errcodes-appendix.html > > > Here you may see phrase "All messages emitted by the PostgreSQL server ..."
> > > and furthermore, there are some SQL standard's "SQLSTATE" code
> > > which name includes "server" rather than "backend":
> > > SQLSERVER REJECTED ESTABLISHMENT OF SQLCONNECTION
> > > But anyway, phrase "backend server" is incorrect.
> >
> > Maybe some cleanup would be good, but in that case please provide a
> > specific patch. The replacement suggested in the email that started
> > this thread seems OK, but wholesale replacement of the phrase "backend
> > server" with something else is likely to introduce as many mistakes as
> > it would fix. For example, the description of postgres' -T switch would
> > then be wrong.
> >
> > I think using the protocol chapter as reference for terms to use is a
> > bad idea -- it's one of the most obscure chapters in the documentation.
>
> OK, attached is my proposed patch; it mostly changes "backend server"
> to "backend process".