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Re: PG 19 release notes and authors

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

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From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2026-04-04T22:16:10Z
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Hi, 

On April 4, 2026 5:56:01 PM EDT, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> wrote:
>On 04.04.26 17:06, Matthias van de Meent wrote:
>> On Sat, 4 Apr 2026 at 16:50, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>>> 
>>> In the PG 19 commits, I am seeing several commits with Author and
>>> Co-authored-by tags.  FYI, I think we agreed that only the Author names
>>> are mentioned as the authors in the release notes.
>> 
>> If it's not the "Co-authored-by" tag, how else would a project of a
>> non-committer cooperating with a committer be tagged?
>
>Two Author tags.

That's not how I understood its use so far, and I'm surely not alone in that. We could rephrase this in the wiki page, but we can't go back and edit the commit messages...

Greetings,

Andres

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  1. Add tests for lock statistics, take two

  2. Introduce a new mechanism for registering shared memory areas