Re: [HACKERS] WAL consistency check facility

On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 7:12 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 5:16 PM, Michael Paquier
>> <michael.paquier@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Just for curiosity: does the moment when the code has been written or
>>> committed counts? It's no big deal seeing how liberal the Postgres
>>> license is, but this makes me wonder...
>
>> IANAL, but I think if you ask one, he or she will tell you that what
>> matters is the date the work was created.  In the case of code, that
>> means when the code was written.
>
> FWIW, my own habit when creating new PG files is generally to write
>
>  * Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2017, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
>  * Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
>
> even if it's "all new" code.  The main reason being that it's hardly ever
> the case that you didn't copy-and-paste some amount of stuff out of a
> pre-existing file, and trying to sort out how much of what originated
> exactly when is an unrewarding exercise.  Even if it is basically all
> new code, this feels like giving an appropriate amount of credit to
> Those Who Went Before Us.

Right.  I tend to do the same, and wonder if we shouldn't make that a
general practice.

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