Use "backend process" rather than "backend server", where appropriate.

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml
index 195d83ba68c9d29db43d140f0dd6905d25b40e7c..eddc65e3b4cd749f20cde3b747d976543bd2f327 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml
@@ -1612,7 +1612,7 @@ int PQsocket(const PGconn *conn);
       
        Returns the process ID
        (PID)PIDdetermining PID of
-       server processin libpq of the backend server
+       server processin libpq of the backend
        process handling this connection.
 
 

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/problems.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/problems.sgml
index a65baa31578949c04cede9f7a8e729bf5d666c6d..3f79c6ef90c7c6d6757b20452f124a1b24473e80 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/problems.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/problems.sgml
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
     
    
 
-   Here program refers to any executable, not only the backend server.
+   Here program refers to any executable, not only the backend process.
   
 
   
@@ -280,9 +280,9 @@
    When writing a bug report, please avoid confusing terminology.
    The software package in total is called PostgreSQL,
    sometimes Postgres for short. If you
-   are specifically talking about the backend server, mention that, do not
+   are specifically talking about the backend process, mention that, do not
    just say PostgreSQL crashes.  A crash of a single
-   backend server process is quite different from crash of the parent
+   backend process is quite different from crash of the parent
    postgres process; please don't say the server
    crashed when you mean a single backend process went down, nor vice versa.
    Also, client programs such as the interactive frontend psql

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/query.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/query.sgml
index 681d08abed863b6a6b6d6a2f551663993a0cef10..f4fbf11a8d1259d96304d8e5ce418d0f2350ca1c 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/query.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/query.sgml
@@ -264,8 +264,8 @@ INSERT INTO weather (date, city, temp_hi, temp_lo)
 COPY weather FROM '/home/user/weather.txt';
 
 
-    where the file name for the source file must be available to the
-    backend server machine, not the client, since the backend server
+    where the file name for the source file must be available on the
+    machine running the backend process, not the client, since the backend process
     reads the file directly.  You can read more about the
     COPY command in .
    

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_ctl-ref.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_ctl-ref.sgml
index 608749f4c6ad56f446478b4f1fd875c021595945..626ed1f8eb80b6993a6b3ed6cc5ab5a56e42569a 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_ctl-ref.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_ctl-ref.sgml
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
    pg_ctl is a utility for initializing a
    PostgreSQL database cluster, starting,
    stopping, or restarting the PostgreSQL
-   backend server (), or displaying the
+   database server (), or displaying the
    status of a running server.  Although the server can be started
    manually, pg_ctl encapsulates tasks such
    as redirecting log output and properly detaching from the terminal

diff --git a/src/backend/libpq/pqsignal.c b/src/backend/libpq/pqsignal.c
index 31e37e9a2b7e8fa23b0ad9a5f20471f0816ca5f5..0fee280ae33c0c117145d3ee5574853b21c44faa 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/libpq/pqsignal.c
+++ b/src/backend/libpq/pqsignal.c
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
  * how to handle signalling.
  *
  * signal(2) handling - this is here because it affects some of
- * the frontend commands as well as the backend server.
+ * the frontend commands as well as the backend processes.
  *
  * Ultrix and SunOS provide BSD signal(2) semantics by default.
  *

diff --git a/src/backend/main/main.c b/src/backend/main/main.c
index 5d077888c95c2e0618e0209af22fbed454b67234..43d182b4dba751f5229049bbb7900afa1b9620a3 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/main/main.c
+++ b/src/backend/main/main.c
@@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ help(const char *progname)
    printf(_("  -O              allow system table structure changes\n"));
    printf(_("  -P              disable system indexes\n"));
    printf(_("  -t pa|pl|ex     show timings after each query\n"));
-   printf(_("  -T              send SIGSTOP to all backend servers if one dies\n"));
+   printf(_("  -T              send SIGSTOP to all backend processes if one dies\n"));
    printf(_("  -W NUM          wait NUM seconds to allow attach from a debugger\n"));
 
    printf(_("\nOptions for single-user mode:\n"));

diff --git a/src/test/examples/testlibpq4.c b/src/test/examples/testlibpq4.c
index dafc6aecb129d11c9292276afe61466a74ec9b43..0ec04313c0cc03fcd8a147dc72c79ea7ac4fa479 100644 (file)
--- a/src/test/examples/testlibpq4.c
+++ b/src/test/examples/testlibpq4.c
@@ -72,11 +72,11 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
     * defaults by looking up environment variables or, failing that, using
     * hardwired constants
     */
-   pghost = NULL;              /* host name of the backend server */
-   pgport = NULL;              /* port of the backend server */
+   pghost = NULL;              /* host name of the backend */
+   pgport = NULL;              /* port of the backend */
    pgoptions = NULL;           /* special options to start up the backend
                                 * server */
-   pgtty = NULL;               /* debugging tty for the backend server */
+   pgtty = NULL;               /* debugging tty for the backend */
 
    /* make a connection to the database */
    conn1 = PQsetdb(pghost, pgport, pgoptions, pgtty, dbName1);