Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> writes: > On Sunday 26 April 2009 21:29:20 Tom Lane wrote: >> This is bogus: errmsg expects that it should itself feed its first >> argument through gettext(), not receive an argument that is already >> translated. That's at the least a waste of cycles, and it's not >> entirely impossible that double translation could end up with a just >> plain wrong result.
> I think we can live with this for now, and we have lived with this sort of > issue in other places for a while. We should consider reshuffling the > interfaces a bit as you describe to reduce the problem. The issue of double translation is really a minor point; what is bothering me is that we've got such an ad-hoc, non-compile-time-checkable approach here. Zdenek's discovery today that some of the format strings are flat-out wrong http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-05/msg00946.php surprises me not in the least. I think that we need to have a more carefully designed interface before we allow any more plural translations to be put in place, not after. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
