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Re:The Design of Postgres [pdf] by Vt71fcAqt7 on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @07:13PM (#34701971)
Agreed. And they know it's important because thier references usually includes the dates of the works cited.
Re:The Design of Postgres [pdf] by anyfoo on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @08:20PM (#34702763)
Yes, absolutely. Even in my example in the sibling comment, when I look at the first citation(s) in that paper with no date, I see: "[Cha82][CAC+81][BCKT89][Ber73]".

Great, so I guess I at least know that it must not have been published before 1989... (before I just search for the title on the web, in the hopes of finding a journal it was published in).