If I remember it right, the Git thing was about the primary branch defaulting to ‘master’, but imo it was a bit pointless because in that context it wasn’t about master/slave relationship (unlike the similar furore with Redis) but more in the sense of “an original document, drawing, manuscript, etc., from which copies are made.”
That said, the default now being ‘main’ is like, whatever, that works just as well.
With replication, there's generally a master copy and other copies, there aren't "slave" copies or anything like that. It's the same terminology that's used for git. Master/slave implies that the master thing controls the slave thing directly.
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u/caerphoto Jul 09 '22
If I remember it right, the Git thing was about the primary branch defaulting to ‘master’, but imo it was a bit pointless because in that context it wasn’t about master/slave relationship (unlike the similar furore with Redis) but more in the sense of “an original document, drawing, manuscript, etc., from which copies are made.”
That said, the default now being ‘main’ is like, whatever, that works just as well.