Re: "Backend server" term usage

2011/3/11 Dmitriy Igrishin <dmitigr(at)gmail(dot)com>

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> 2011/3/11 Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
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> Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of vie mar 11 11:42:58 -0300 2011:
>> > Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> > > Excerpts from Dmitriy Igrishin's message of dom feb 20 06:19:19 -0300
>> 2011:
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>> > > > 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.
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>> > > 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
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>> > > then be wrong.
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>> > > 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.
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>> > OK, attached is my proposed patch; it mostly changes "backend server"
>> > to "backend process".
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>> Looks good to me, thanks for the effort.
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>> This whole thread makes me think that we should consider having a
>> glossary of terms in the docs.
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> +1.
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The implementation of this idea can be very helpful especially
for people making translations of the documentation.

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