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+#!/usr/bin/perl 
+#################################################################
+# copyright.pl -- update copyright notices throughout the source tree, idempotently.
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2011, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
+#
+# src/tools/copyright.pl
+#################################################################
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+
+use File::Find;
+
+my $pgdg = 'PostgreSQL Global Development Group';
+my $cc = 'Copyright (c) ';
+# year-1900 is what localtime(time) puts in element 5
+my $year = 1900 + ${[localtime(time)]}[5];
+
+print "Using current year:  $year\n";
+
+find({wanted => \&wanted, no_chdir => 1}, '.');
+
+sub wanted {
+    return unless -f $File::Find::name;
+
+    my @lines;
+    tie @lines, Tie::File, $File::Find::name;
+
+    foreach my $line (@lines) {
+        # We only care about lines with a copyright notice.
+        next unless $line =~ m/$cc.*$pgdg/;
+        # We stop when we've done one substitution.  This is both for
+        # efficiency and, at least in the case of this program, for
+        # correctness.
+        last if $line =~ m/$cc.*$year.*$pgdg/;
+        last if $line =~ s/($cc\d{4})(, $pgdg)/$1-$year$2/;
+        last if $line =~ s/($cc\d{4})-\d{4}(, $pgdg)/$1-$year$2/;
+    }
+    untie @lines;
+}
+
+print "Manually update doc/src/sgml/legal.sgml and src/interfaces/libpq/libpq.rc.in too\n";
+