Re: Year of first commit

2025-01-21 Thread Tom Lane
Marcos Pegoraro writes: > Why is this important ? Well, if that file has a 2014-2025, I can know how > old it is, more or less which version was included, etc > Additionally, I see all of you adding or removing a single letter to > sources, why not adjust those years on header files ? Our git his

Re: Year of first commit

2025-01-21 Thread Marcos Pegoraro
Em ter., 21 de jan. de 2025 às 14:50, Álvaro Herrera < alvhe...@alvh.no-ip.org> escreveu: > I have to ask, why do you think this is important? > I'm just reading sources, navigating on files history and learning, so don't be furious with me. Why is this important ? Well, if that file has a 2014-2

Re: Year of first commit

2025-01-21 Thread Álvaro Herrera
On 2025-Jan-21, Marcos Pegoraro wrote: > But these numbers seem inaccurate, because there are 1644 copyright strings > but 1521 are 1996-2025. So, JSONB, BRIN, FDW, Logical Replication and lots > of others, all of them were started in 1996 or have any related code ? I have to ask, why do you thin

Re: Year of first commit

2025-01-21 Thread Tom Lane
Marcos Pegoraro writes: > But these numbers seem inaccurate, because there are 1644 copyright strings > but 1521 are 1996-2025. [ shrug... ] I did not claim that this idea has been adhered to 100%. In a code base as old and large as ours, very few things are adhered to 100%.

Re: Year of first commit

2025-01-21 Thread Marcos Pegoraro
Em ter., 21 de jan. de 2025 às 12:36, Tom Lane escreveu: > so we prefer to use the same copyright dates as related older files even > in less > clear-cut cases. > Thank you Tom for your time. But these numbers seem inaccurate, because there are 1644 copyright strings but 1521 are 1996-2025. So,

Re: Year of first commit

2025-01-21 Thread Tom Lane
Marcos Pegoraro writes: > Today Amit Langote committed execScan.h and put on its header years from > 1996 to 2025. Those years are what exactly ? 1996 is when the open-source Postgres effort started. There's a bigger philosophical issue here, which is whether a new file shouldn't just list the c

Year of first commit

2025-01-21 Thread Marcos Pegoraro
Today Amit Langote committed execScan.h and put on its header years from 1996 to 2025. Those years are what exactly ? This file has 1996, but sometimes is the first commit year of that file, sometimes is completely unrelated. What is right for it ? Need that to be adjusted ? /*