Re: pgsql: PG_MAJORVERSION: For simplicity, use PG_MAJORVERSION rather than

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Log Message:
> -----------
> PG_MAJORVERSION:
>
> For simplicity, use PG_MAJORVERSION rather than PG_VERSION for creation
> of the PG_VERSION file.

I think this is a bad style to use for commit messages.  For GIT, a good
commit message is a first line being a summary, and a more extensive
message below.  The way you used a contentless first line means that
somebody perusing a "git shortlog" or "git annotate" does not get any
useful information out of it.  It would have been better phrased
like

"Use PG_MAJORVERSION define to create the PG_VERSION file

It is easier than using the PG_VERSION define."

or similar.

It is also bad for pgsql-committers list archives, because those get an
extract of the first line too.

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