> On 4 Jul 2024, at 14:13, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org> wrote:
>
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
>
>> On 2024-Jul-04, Tom Lane wrote:
>>
>>> "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> writes:
>>>> On Wed, Jul 3, 2024 at 8:46 PM Steve Lau <stevelauc@outlook.com> wrote:
>>>>> While reading the source code, I noticed comments like "-cim 9/10/89".
>>>
>>>> It's the initials of the person who, back in 1989, wrote the preceding
>>>> comments
>>>
>>> Right.
>>>
>>>> PostgreSQL inherited the code which is when our git history begins. This
>>>> comment was part of the original source.
>>>
>>> We lack any source-code-control history before 1996, so there's no
>>> way to be sure who wrote that, unless you can identify some Berkeley
>>> Postgres person with those initials.
>>
>> Actually, somebody (thanks, Stas) set up a Github repo of the old
>> history here:
>> https://github.com/kelvich/postgres_pre95
>> There you can find commits like this
>> https://github.com/kelvich/postgres_pre95/commit/0bf22e7dbb09b68b6e4c34dccc1440ebe98f8049
>> where tons of "- cim" comments were introduced. Unix account name was
>> "cimarron". You can go on from there if you want, but why?
>
> Searching for "cimarron postgres" returns
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illustra, which mentions a Cimarron Taylor
> as one of Stonebraker's students, but I can't find anything else
> relevant in a few minutes of searching.
That seems to match up. There is a Cimarron Taylor on LinkedIN who was
"Programmer/Analyst" at U.C. Berkeley Database Research Group in January 1978
through January 1990.
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Daniel Gustafsson
