On Thu, Mar 09, 2023 at 06:51:21PM +0100, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > I'd rather make all these other places use "instance" instead. We used > to consider these terms interchangeable, but since we introduced the > glossary to unify the terminology, they are no longer supposed to be. > A server (== a machine) can contain many instances, and each individual > instance in the server could be using huge pages or not.
Ah, good to know. I've always considered "server" in this context to mean the server process(es) for a single instance, but I can see the value in having different terminology to clearly distinguish the process(es) from the machine. -- Nathan Bossart Amazon Web Services: https://aws.amazon.com
