> has no choice of what to do Tell that to the MySQL cluster I inherited at my last job ;-). In all seriousness, I have to disagree with you, in that I think

> has no choice of what to do Tell that to the MySQL cluster I inherited at my last job ;-). In all seriousness, I have to disagree with you, in that I think leader/follower captures the relationship fine. But at this point, I think "whether the word captures the relationship" is very subjective.