Commit 7c89f8a5 authored by Andres Freund's avatar Andres Freund

docs: replace 'master process' with 'supervisor process' where appropriate.

Author: Andres Freund
Reviewed-By: David Steele
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200615182235.x7lch5n6kcjq4aue@alap3.anarazel.de
parent 09dfd430
......@@ -122,8 +122,9 @@
there is one <firstterm>client process</firstterm> connected to
exactly one <firstterm>server process</firstterm>. As we do not
know ahead of time how many connections will be made, we have to
use a <firstterm>master process</firstterm> that spawns a new
server process every time a connection is requested. This master
use a <firstterm>supervisor process</firstterm> (also
<firstterm>master process</firstterm>) that spawns a new
server process every time a connection is requested. This supervisor
process is called <literal>postgres</literal> and listens at a
specified TCP/IP port for incoming connections. Whenever a request
for a connection is detected the <literal>postgres</literal>
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......@@ -1292,7 +1292,7 @@ default:\
optimal for <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>. Because of the
way that the kernel implements memory overcommit, the kernel might
terminate the <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> postmaster (the
master server process) if the memory demands of either
supervisor server process) if the memory demands of either
<productname>PostgreSQL</productname> or another process cause the
system to run out of virtual memory.
</para>
......@@ -1465,7 +1465,7 @@ $ <userinput>grep Huge /proc/meminfo</userinput>
<para>
There are several ways to shut down the database server. You control
the type of shutdown by sending different signals to the master
the type of shutdown by sending different signals to the supervisor
<command>postgres</command> process.
<variablelist>
......@@ -1511,7 +1511,7 @@ $ <userinput>grep Huge /proc/meminfo</userinput>
The server will send <systemitem>SIGQUIT</systemitem> to all child
processes and wait for them to terminate. If any do not terminate
within 5 seconds, they will be sent <systemitem>SIGKILL</systemitem>.
The master server process exits as soon as all child processes have
The supervisor server process exits as soon as all child processes have
exited, without doing normal database shutdown processing.
This will lead to recovery (by
replaying the WAL log) upon next start-up. This is recommended
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......@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@
From that point on, the client and the new server process
communicate without intervention by the original
<filename>postgres</filename> process. Thus, the
master server process is always running, waiting for
supervisor server process is always running, waiting for
client connections, whereas client and associated server processes
come and go. (All of this is of course invisible to the user. We
only mention it here for completeness.)
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