On Wed, Jul 3, 2024 at 8:46 PM Steve Lau <stevel...@outlook.com> wrote:

>
> While reading the source code, I noticed comments like "-cim 9/10/89". I
> think this might be an annotation by a developer to indicate the commit
> time, but from the commit history (using git), they does not seem to match.
>

It's the initials of the person who, back in 1989, wrote the preceding
comments

 * Note: most of these are "incomplete" because I didn't
 *  need the ones not defined.  More should be added
 *  only as necessary -cim 10/26/89

"I" == cim == ???

PostgreSQL inherited the code which is when our git history begins.  This
comment was part of the original source.

I do not know the full name of the person those initials refer to.

David J.

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