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Re: PG 19 release notes and authors

Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>

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From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
To: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2026-04-04T15:49:27Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
> On 4 Apr 2026, at 17:06, Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

Agreed, as a committer I want the persons listed as co-author in the git log to
be credited in the release notes.

--
Daniel Gustafsson

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  1. Add tests for lock statistics, take two

  2. Introduce a new mechanism for registering shared memory areas