Re: Unknown annotation '-cim' in source code

On 2024-Jul-04, Tom Lane wrote:

> "David G. Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > On Wed, Jul 3, 2024 at 8:46 PM Steve Lau <stevelauc(at)outlook(dot)com> wrote:
> >> While reading the source code, I noticed comments like "-cim 9/10/89".
>
> > It's the initials of the person who, back in 1989, wrote the preceding
> > comments
>
> Right.
>
> > PostgreSQL inherited the code which is when our git history begins. This
> > comment was part of the original source.
>
> We lack any source-code-control history before 1996, so there's no
> way to be sure who wrote that, unless you can identify some Berkeley
> Postgres person with those initials.

Actually, somebody (thanks, Stas) set up a Github repo of the old
history here:
https://github.com/kelvich/postgres_pre95
There you can find commits like this
https://github.com/kelvich/postgres_pre95/commit/0bf22e7dbb09b68b6e4c34dccc1440ebe98f8049
where tons of "- cim" comments were introduced. Unix account name was
"cimarron". You can go on from there if you want, but why?

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