Re: make_ctags script

> Slightly off topic: While going through the current source, comparing
> to Mariposa, I've seen little traces of old code: some ideas seem to
> have been reinvented and reimplemented a number of times. Going back
> and digging into Postgres95, and the last postquel based release,
> postgres-v4r2, to see how they were implemented, it's been fun seeing
> "debate/design by comment block" from some of the original university
> developers. In particular, one block with a 12 line NOOOOOO! in
> backend/commands/version.c had me rolling on the floor. Ah, I see it lives
> on in _deadcode. In general, the functional comments in the current code
> are more informative, but not as much fun ;-)

What I have realized is how superior some of our code is to the old
stuff.

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