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

On Mon, Feb 3, 2025 at 5:38 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> One problem with it is that while we can leave "List of ???" out of the
> set of translatable strings easily, we can't currently do that for the
> argument of pg_log_error because it's automatically a gettext trigger. I'd
> rather not burden translators with figuring out what to do with that. Is
> it worth creating pg_log_error_internal, equivalently to elog and
> errmsg_internal in the backend?
>

I don't think so, unless there are other uses of it waiting. 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.

BTW, I updated the regression tests for this, and that bears out your
> argument that one-type commands are the majority. There are still a couple
> "List of relations", but not many.
>

Thank you for that, I should have done that in my original patch.

Cheers,
Greg

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.

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