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

Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>

From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-11-20T09:38:49Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> On 19 Nov 2025, at 20:59, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:

> While working on a talk, I studied the number of code line changes in
> each major release,

This script will only pick up C, but will pick up C in src/test but not any
Perl code using the C modules in src/test etc.  These days we also have C++ and
some Python in the tree.  Maybe it's time to revise it for todays codebase
which is quite different from when it was written 20 years ago?

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Daniel Gustafsson