Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@alvh.no-ip.org> writes: > On 2024-Jul-04, Tom Lane wrote: > >> "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johns...@gmail.com> writes: >> > On Wed, Jul 3, 2024 at 8:46 PM Steve Lau <stevel...@outlook.com> wrote: >> >> While reading the source code, I noticed comments like "-cim 9/10/89". >> >> > It's the initials of the person who, back in 1989, wrote the preceding >> > comments >> >> Right. >> >> > PostgreSQL inherited the code which is when our git history begins. This >> > comment was part of the original source. >> >> We lack any source-code-control history before 1996, so there's no >> way to be sure who wrote that, unless you can identify some Berkeley >> Postgres person with those initials. > > Actually, somebody (thanks, Stas) set up a Github repo of the old > history here: > https://github.com/kelvich/postgres_pre95 > There you can find commits like this > https://github.com/kelvich/postgres_pre95/commit/0bf22e7dbb09b68b6e4c34dccc1440ebe98f8049 > where tons of "- cim" comments were introduced. Unix account name was > "cimarron". You can go on from there if you want, but why?
Searching for "cimarron postgres" returns https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illustra, which mentions a Cimarron Taylor as one of Stonebraker's students, but I can't find anything else relevant in a few minutes of searching. - ilmari
