From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
---|---|
To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Kuntal Ghosh <kuntalghosh(dot)2007(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
Subject: | Re: WAL consistency check facility |
Date: | 2017-02-15 02:08:59 |
Message-ID: | CA+TgmoYAb_syaC4i_N5_MwTaR5DtMez_UM0Ug8=tW3RNsbjdPA@mail.gmail.com |
Views: | Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email |
Thread: | |
Lists: | pgsql-hackers |
On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 7:12 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 5:16 PM, Michael Paquier
>> <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>> Just for curiosity: does the moment when the code has been written or
>>> committed counts? It's no big deal seeing how liberal the Postgres
>>> license is, but this makes me wonder...
>
>> IANAL, but I think if you ask one, he or she will tell you that what
>> matters is the date the work was created. In the case of code, that
>> means when the code was written.
>
> FWIW, my own habit when creating new PG files is generally to write
>
> * Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2017, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
> * Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
>
> even if it's "all new" code. The main reason being that it's hardly ever
> the case that you didn't copy-and-paste some amount of stuff out of a
> pre-existing file, and trying to sort out how much of what originated
> exactly when is an unrewarding exercise. Even if it is basically all
> new code, this feels like giving an appropriate amount of credit to
> Those Who Went Before Us.
Right. I tend to do the same, and wonder if we shouldn't make that a
general practice.
--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
From | Date | Subject | |
---|---|---|---|
Next Message | Michael Paquier | 2017-02-15 02:16:09 | Re: WAL consistency check facility |
Previous Message | Robert Haas | 2017-02-15 02:08:35 | Re: [Bug fix] PQsendQuery occurs error when target_session_attrs is set to read-write |