Re: pgsql: Remove reviewers from 9.2 release notes; improve attributions.

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 12:18:18PM +0100, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On 22 May 2012 22:17, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> > Remove reviewers from 9.2 release notes;  improve attributions.
>
> I am unhappy with now being listed as a secondary author of
> pg_stat_statements normalisation. I am credited as a co-author within
> the docs (alongside the original 8.4 author, Takahiro Itagaki), and am
> solely credited within the original commit message. Tom did of course
> clean up the patch, but most of my earlier design decisions, many of
> which went against the grain until very late in the last commitfest,
> remain.
>
> These include:
>
> * The whole decision as to what type of tree to hash. I was strongly
> urged to first consider hashing plan trees, and then later the raw
> parse tree. I more-or-less stood by my earliest decision to hash a
> serialisation of the Query struct (though switched to pre rather than
> post rewrite stage hashing).
>
> * The jumble concept (central to how the feature works), macro
> infrastructure, etc.
>
> * The decision to not use the query_tree_walker infrastructure when
> walking trees.
>
> * The whole idea of using the low-level scanner API to calculate the
> lengths of constants, which were not directly available from the core
> system.
>
> * The approach to managing sticky-entry decay, and indeed the very
> idea of sticky entries.

OK, I have updated you as primary author. The problem happened because
of the method I used ot remove, then add additional authors. Sorry
about that.

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