On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 11:03 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 11:59 PM, Michael Paquier
> <michael.paquier@gmail.com> wrote:
>> As mentioned in $subject, the header files in src/bin/pg_basebackup do
>> not have a comment block at the top and do not have any copyright
>> text.
>> Any reason for that? Shouldn't we have something for consistency with
>> the other files like in the patch attached?
>
> Probably that's a good idea, but do we really need Author: tags? I
> know we have those in a few places, but certainly not everywhere, and
> as time goes by they tend to be less accurate reflections of who wrote
> the latest code (as opposed to the original code). Furthermore, every
> time we include them, it tends to increase the demand to add even more
> of them because, hey, everybody likes to be acknowledged.
Given that I'm the one named in it - nah, just drop it.
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