Re: SSI error messages

From: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
To: "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Robert Haas" <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, "Pg Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: SSI error messages
Date: 2011-07-15 21:17:06
Message-ID: 4E206802020000250003F3BE@gw.wicourts.gov
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> Excerpts from Tom Lane's message:
>
>> I think that Peter's real concern is whether these are worth
>> translating, and I share that doubt. Perhaps we should invent an
>> errdetail_internal, parallel to errmsg_internal, that works like
>> errdetail but doesn't treat the message as a candidate for
>> translation?
>
> Yeah. The other point is that translated versions of those
> phrases are likely to introduce randomly diverging terms, which is
> not going to help with debugging. As long as the technology is
> new enough that a user is going to need help from -hackers (or at
> least someone who read and grokked README.SSI) to debug a problem,
> there's no benefit to translating those errdetails.

OK, since that seems to be the consensus, I put a patch together.
Testing it now. Will post once I've confirmed it doesn't break
anything.

-Kevin

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