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Re: PG 19 release notes and authors

Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>

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From: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2026-04-04T15:06:15Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
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?

Publicly, the guidance for commit tag usage seems to be [0]
>  "Co-authored-by:" is used by committers when they want to give
> full credit to the named individuals, but also indicate that they
> made significant changes.

Removing that committer's "full credit to the named individuals" seems
out of place to me.

Kind regards,

Matthias van de Meent
Databricks (https://www.databricks.com)

[0] https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Commit_Message_Guidance

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  1. Add tests for lock statistics, take two

  2. Introduce a new mechanism for registering shared memory areas