Re: Committers info for the git migration - URGENT!

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
Date: 2010-08-26T14:07:54Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > Dan McGuirk is definitely right.  I do not remember Julian Assange at
> > all.  Why do we believe it is Julian Assange?
> 
> There's half a dozen commits from back around 1996 applied by Marc
> on behalf of Julian Assange <proff@suburbia.net>, and then about
> half a dozen committed by "julian" without any other ID.  The first
> of the former is
> 
> 1996-07-18 01:48  scrappy
> 
> 	* src/: bin/monitor/monitor.c, bin/psql/psql.c,
> 	interfaces/libpq/fe-exec.c, interfaces/libpq/libpq-fe.h: libpq and
> 	psql.c have been modified to do various things they didn't do
> 	before (plus some optimisations/bug fixes et al).  I've included a
> 	small demo transcript below. Note that all of of the display
> 	functionality/intelligence you see here, can be had merely by
> 	calling the new LIBPQ PQprint() routine with the appropriate
> 	arguments/options, including the HTML3 output guff.
> 	
> 	submitted by:  Julian Assange <proff@suburbia.net>
> 
> and the last of the latter is
> 
> 1996-08-20 20:22  julian
> 
> 	* src/bin/psql/psql.c: command line flag for expanded display '-x'
> 	had logic reversed
> 
> So far as I can see, he only contributed to psql not the backend.
> 
> Oh wait, here is one where he identifies himself as "proff":
> 
> 1996-07-25 02:46  julian
> 
> 	* src/bin/psql/psql.c: Large re-write/enhancement. In pg-101 Jolly
> 	only included a smaller part of my (proff) patch. This is the rest
> 	of it, with a few, mainly aesthetic changes. I've removed a lot of
> 	redundency from the original code, added support for the new
> 	PQprint() routines in libpq, expanded tables, and a few generally
> 	nifty ways of massaging data in and out of the backend. Still needs
> 	some good stress testing.
> 
> So this committer is him, not some other Julian.

Yep, I must have forgotten about him.

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