Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > Dan McGuirk is definitely right. I do not remember Julian Assange at
> > all. Why do we believe it is Julian Assange?
>
> There's half a dozen commits from back around 1996 applied by Marc
> on behalf of Julian Assange <proff@suburbia.net>, and then about
> half a dozen committed by "julian" without any other ID. The first
> of the former is
>
> 1996-07-18 01:48 scrappy
>
> * src/: bin/monitor/monitor.c, bin/psql/psql.c,
> interfaces/libpq/fe-exec.c, interfaces/libpq/libpq-fe.h: libpq and
> psql.c have been modified to do various things they didn't do
> before (plus some optimisations/bug fixes et al). I've included a
> small demo transcript below. Note that all of of the display
> functionality/intelligence you see here, can be had merely by
> calling the new LIBPQ PQprint() routine with the appropriate
> arguments/options, including the HTML3 output guff.
>
> submitted by: Julian Assange <proff@suburbia.net>
>
> and the last of the latter is
>
> 1996-08-20 20:22 julian
>
> * src/bin/psql/psql.c: command line flag for expanded display '-x'
> had logic reversed
>
> So far as I can see, he only contributed to psql not the backend.
>
> Oh wait, here is one where he identifies himself as "proff":
>
> 1996-07-25 02:46 julian
>
> * src/bin/psql/psql.c: Large re-write/enhancement. In pg-101 Jolly
> only included a smaller part of my (proff) patch. This is the rest
> of it, with a few, mainly aesthetic changes. I've removed a lot of
> redundency from the original code, added support for the new
> PQprint() routines in libpq, expanded tables, and a few generally
> nifty ways of massaging data in and out of the backend. Still needs
> some good stress testing.
>
> So this committer is him, not some other Julian.
Yep, I must have forgotten about him.
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