Re: Opinions about wording of error messages for bug #3883?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgtranslation-translators(at)pgfoundry(dot)org
Subject: Re: Opinions about wording of error messages for bug #3883?
Date: 2008-01-30 01:31:07
Message-ID: 206.1201656667@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> I'm tempted to rephrase both messages along the line of
>> cannot %s \"%s\" because ...
>>
>> where the first %s is replaced by a SQL command name, viz ALTER TABLE,
>> CLUSTER, etc. I'm not sure how nice this is for translation though.

> I suggest
> cannot execute \"%s\" on \"%s\" because ...

Hmm, why not just

cannot execute %s \"%s\" because ...

?

regards, tom lane

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