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From: David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
To: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Andres Freund <[email protected]>
Cc: Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Geoghegan <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrey Borodin <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: PG 19 release notes and authors
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2026 07:42:52 -0700
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On Monday, April 6, 2026, Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> I think having "Co-authored-by:" mean one thing when "Author" appears
> and a different thing when "Author" is missing is too confusing.
>

The community hasn’t recognized intermediate contributions between
authorship and reviewer.  Co-Author has always been available for technical
reasons but doesn’t actually convey less status than Author even if some
people intended it to be used that way.  I don’t think we should change
that.  Stating it more clearly seems warranted.

Co-authored never means any thing different than “one of the authors”.
It’s committed-by whose meaning changes in the presence/absence of author.
I likewise don’t see changing that.  For future users of this information,
having a silent boundary at which the meaning/usage of labels changes is
very annoying.

David J.

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