1 Articles tagged “Master”

The PostgreSQL community made the explicit choice some times ago that they would not use the infamous master and slave terminology. Instead, the documentation introduces the concepts of High Availability, Load Balancing, and Replication with the terms Primary and Standby, and the even more generic term Replica is used in contexts when only the data flow is considered, rather than the particular role of a node.


Dimitri Fontaine

PostgreSQL Major Contributor

Open Source Software Engineer

France