# The old Berkeley Postgres code

> Some days ago, I was reading some patch from the in-progress commitfest, and happened to notice this comment in src/include/tcopprot.h:


 *    This file wa…

Some days ago, I was reading some patch from the in-progress commitfest, and happened to notice this comment in `src/include/tcopprot.h`:
    
    
     *    This file was created so that other c files could get the two
     *    function prototypes without having to include tcop.h which single
     *    handedly includes the whole f*cking tree -- mer 5 Nov. 1991
    

The weird thing about this was that there's no tcop.h file on the tree. I thought that it must have been removed somewhere along the long history of code cleanups and rearrangements. I was curious to see what this file looked like, so I went to the very first commit in our CVS, which turns out to be [this one in Git](<http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=tree;hb=d31084e9d1118b25fd16580d9d8c2924b5740dff>). However, it turns out that it's not there either!

So I turned to a quick web search, and found out that [Berkeley](<http://www.berkeley.edu>) (or rather the University of California) still has [the old tarballs for anyone to grab](<http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/postgres.html>).

I eventually found the file in the `postgres-v4r0` tarball; and as foretold in the old comment above, it clearly includes the whole source tree. Now that that file is long gone, I think it's time to remove that comment.

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