Re: Unknown annotation '-cim' in source code

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> writes:

> 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?

Searching for "cimarron postgres" returns
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illustra, which mentions a Cimarron Taylor
as one of Stonebraker's students, but I can't find anything else
relevant in a few minutes of searching.

- ilmari