From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
cc: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=81lvaro?= Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>,
        Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>,
        Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>,
        PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: PG 19 release notes and authors
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Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> On 2026-04-05 16:09:57 +0200, Álvaro Herrera wrote:
>> On 2026-Apr-05, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>> I just updated the wiki to handle this case because obviously
>>> Co-authored-by is listing more than just committers:

> I think that is a completely unwarranted change for which there is zero
> concensus.

Indeed.  You exceeded your authority here.

Even if there were consensus about making this change going forward,
the existing commit records were made under a different understanding.
You can't just say you're going to reinterpret them in a way that
excludes giving credit where credit is due.

			regards, tom lane