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

Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-11-21T12:13:50Z
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On 21.11.25 01:49, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Actually, another discussion would be why we have src/tools/codelines in
> the git tree at all.  I added it in 2005 to use in counting code lines,
> and I thought we could consider it our standard method, but I am not
> sure anyone aside from me even uses it, and it is clear there are
> multiple methods people consider valid.  Should we just remove it?

I think so.