Re: pgsql: Use TypeName to represent type names in certain commands

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgsql: Use TypeName to represent type names in certain commands
Date: 2014-12-30 17:21:56
Message-ID: 20141230172156.GU1645@alvh.no-ip.org
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Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> On 12/30/2014 06:58 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> >- errmsg("name list length must be %d", 1)));
> >+ errmsg("name list length must be exactly %d", 1)));
>
> Seems silly to pass constant 1 as an argument. (Yeah, it was silly before
> this commit too.)

It seems silly, but if we had another message with a different constant,
this would make them both be a single translatable string. I have
changed other messages in the same way, for example see the (seemingly
unrelated) change to src/backend/libpq/hba.c in 73c986adde5d73a5e2555da.

> There is one instance of the old message left in pg_get_object_address.
> Should change that too for consistency, and to reduce translation work.

Hm, I couldn't find it ... care to provide a line number?

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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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