Re: PG 19 release notes and authors

On Sat, 4 Apr 2026 at 16:50, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
>
> In the PG 19 commits, I am seeing several commits with Author and
> Co-authored-by tags. FYI, I think we agreed that only the Author names
> are mentioned as the authors in the release notes.

If it's not the "Co-authored-by" tag, how else would a project of a
non-committer cooperating with a committer be tagged?

Publicly, the guidance for commit tag usage seems to be [0]
> "Co-authored-by:" is used by committers when they want to give
> full credit to the named individuals, but also indicate that they
> made significant changes.

Removing that committer's "full credit to the named individuals" seems
out of place to me.

Kind regards,

Matthias van de Meent
Databricks (https://www.databricks.com)

[0] https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Commit_Message_Guidance