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

Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@tigerdata.com>

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From: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@tigerdata.com>
To: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Date: 2025-11-21T11:36:57Z
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Hi Bruce,

> 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 we should.

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Best regards,
Aleksander Alekseev