Re: Internationalized error messages

On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 09:00:09PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 11:49:50PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >> I really feel that translated error messages need to happen soon.
>
> Agreed.

Yes, error codes is *very* wanted feature.

>
> ERROR: Attribute "foo" not found -- basic message for dumb frontends
> ERRORCODE: UNREC_IDENT -- key for finding localized message
> PARAM1: foo -- something to embed in the localized message
> MESSAGE: Attribute or table name not known within context of query
> CODELOC: src/backend/parser/parse_clause.c line 345
> QUERYLOC: 22

Great idea! I agree that we need some powerful Error protocol instead
currect string based messages.

For transaltion to other languages I not sure with gettext() stuff on
backend -- IMHO better (faster) solution will postgres system catalog
with it.

May be add new command too: SET MESSAGE_LANGUAGE TO <xxx>, because
wanted language not must be always same as locale setting.

Something like elog(ERROR, gettext(...)); is usable, but not sounds good
for me.

Karel

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