On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 22:39, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: > > The tricky part seems to be dealing with i10n issues since the text to > > translate would be release specific it needs to go into the backend -- > > but that isn't so nice. > > Why tricky? I'm just going to make the 7.5 psql utility work against > previous versions of postgresql. Any strings in that utility are > translatable like any other.
I suppose if all you want is backward compatibility which makes sense for pg_dump, but surely psql should be forward thinking. Normally it's old clients with new server, not the other way around -- at least with big companies it seems easier to get a server upgraded than everyones desktop. Forward looking means pulling the available commands, queries, etc from the backend. It actually works quite well (submitted a patch quite a while ago) in all respects except string translation.
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