Re: pg_rewind, a tool for resynchronizing an old master after failover

On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 08:37:44PM +0200, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2013-05-28 14:32:07 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > We have a lot of code in PostgreSQL source tree with different
> > > copyright notices, and there's no problem with that as long as the
> > > coe is licensed under the PostgreSQL license. For patches that add
> >
> > Really? Where? I think we have removed them all, as far as I know.
> > A quick grep shows:
> >
> > $ grep -r 'Portions Copyright'|egrep -v 'Global|Regents'
> > ./src/backend/regex/regexport.c: * Portions Copyright (c) 1998, 1999 Henry Spencer
> > ./src/backend/regex/regprefix.c: * Portions Copyright (c) 1998, 1999 Henry Spencer
> > ./src/include/regex/regexport.h: * Portions Copyright (c) 1998, 1999 Henry Spencer
> > ./src/include/getopt_long.h: * Portions Copyright (c) 1987, 1993, 1994
> > ./src/bin/pg_dump/pg_backup_directory.c: * Portions Copyright (c) 2000, Philip Warner
> > ./src/port/getopt_long.c: * Portions Copyright (c) 1987, 1993, 1994
> > ./src/port/getopt_long.c: * Portions Copyright (c) 2003
>
> Just remove the "Portions" part from your grep, and you will see quite
> some more...

Oh, I see. Have we historically been OK with these as long as it is
clear it is the PG copyright? I know we had do some cleanups in the
past, but I don't remember the details, obviously.

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