Re: New copyright program

David Fetter wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I noticed that src/tools/copyright looks like it can only be run on
> Bruce's machine, so this translation to Perl is intended:
>
> 1. To make the script idempotent, which allows its safe use in
> automated tools that might run it many times.
>
> 2. To get the script to run on any machine a PostgreSQL developer
> would be using, as Perl is already required.
>
> 3. To make the script more efficient. As the copyright notice we
> need to munge only appears once per file, it stops once it has made a
> substitution.
>
> Please find attached a patch implementing same.

Thanks. Applied to HEAD. I never liked putting scripts in git that
only I could run, but I thought if something happened to me, it would be
good to record what I did. The Perl solution is perfect.

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