Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> I just noticed that this comment got reindented by pgindent
> (xlog.c, line 3226 in REL9_1_STABLE):
>               /*
>                * translator: First %s represents a recovery.conf parameter 
> name like
>                * "recovery_end_command", and the 2nd is the value of that 
> parameter.
>                */
>               ereport((signaled && failOnSignal) ? FATAL : WARNING,
>                               (errmsg("%s \"%s\": return code %d", 
> commandName,
>                                               command, rc)));
> 
> Sure enough, the resulting POT entry does not have the necessary
> comment:
> 
> #: /pgsql/source/REL9_1_STABLE/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c:3230
> #, c-format
> msgid "%s \"%s\": return code %d"
> msgstr ""
> 
> I think the proper fix would be to use the /*---- trick, such as in
> postmaster.c:
> 
>               /*------
>                 translator: %s is a noun phrase describing a child process, 
> such as
>                 "server process" */
>                               (errmsg("%s (PID %d) exited with exit code %d",
>                                               procname, pid, 
> WEXITSTATUS(exitstatus))));
> 
> It seems to me that we should alert if pgindent does anything to a
> comment line containing "translator:".

Well, the comment adjustments happen in the C code, which is hard to
modify.  We would need a wrapper that understood when it was in a C
command and add /*--- markers if the word 'translator:' appeared.

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