Re: gettext calls in pgport

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> As has previously been pointed out, the strings marked up for gettext
> translation in the pgport library don't work and need to be moved back
> to where they once came from, unless someone wants to add gettext and
> locale setup in pgport. (That might be silly, because in theory locale
> and gettext functions could one day become part of pgport.) I claim
> that pgport is a low-layer library that works on the operating system
> level and should communicate with its callers via error codes.

Error codes seem like a lot more work than it is worth. I vote for
adding gettext support to /port. Also adding error codes duplicates all
the error strings in the call sites.

Added to open items list:

* Add gettext support to src/port

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