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

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> — 2025-11-20T20:30:15Z

On Thu, Nov 20, 2025 at 10:38:49AM +0100, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> > 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?

Yeah, that's part of a larger discussion.   In an email I just sent I
suggested we are trying to count files that are part of a cluster
install, rather than testing files, but again, needs discussion.

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