Re: Better title output for psql \dt \di etc. commands

Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> ... For this
> particular item, I'm still of the opinion that leaving it as "List of
> relations" is a pretty good default for some future somebody who forgets to
> update the lists of relation types. New types are certainly not going to
> happen often. Better "List of relations" than a release where everybody and
> their cousin starts asking what "List of ???" means.

Hopefully an oversight like that wouldn't make it to release. But
hiding it by putting out an ordinary-looking title might help it
avoid detection for a long time.

> P.S. I found it amusing to see in some quick grepping that pg_controldata
> has a msgstr of "???". So far no language has managed to translate it into
> something else.

There are several pre-existing "???" strings in describe.c too,
for similar this-shouldn't-happen cases. I'm not proposing
something that's far outside our existing practice.

regards, tom lane