@vftdan sometimes it wasn't. master-master configurations existed, or master-failover. a blob was like "but primary and secondary" and i'm just like "if the 'primary' battery goes down, and i tell you we have a 'secondary', but the power is still out, you will ask me what the fuck, because secondary implies it can take control if needed'

slave processes just obey, they don't control, that's why we called them that. otherwise we didn't. :blobcatdunno: