Re: 10% drop in code line count in PG 17

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: 10% drop in code line count in PG 17
Date: 2025-11-20 20:30:15
Message-ID: aR96V5LdKi235XJu@momjian.us
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On Thu, Nov 20, 2025 at 10:38:49AM +0100, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> > On 19 Nov 2025, at 20:59, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
>
> > While working on a talk, I studied the number of code line changes in
> > each major release,
>
> This script will only pick up C, but will pick up C in src/test but not any
> Perl code using the C modules in src/test etc. These days we also have C++ and
> some Python in the tree. Maybe it's time to revise it for todays codebase
> which is quite different from when it was written 20 years ago?

Yeah, that's part of a larger discussion. In an email I just sent I
suggested we are trying to count files that are part of a cluster
install, rather than testing files, but again, needs discussion.

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