Re: add log messages when replication slots become active and inactive (was Re: Is it worth adding ReplicationSlot active_pid to ReplicationSlotPersistentData?)

On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 4:01 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> wrote:
>
> On 2023-Nov-16, Peter Smith wrote:
>
> > I searched HEAD code and did not find any "translator:" comments for
> > just ordinary slot name substitutions like these; AFAICT that comment
> > is not necessary anymore.
>
> True. Lose that.

Removed.

> The rationale I have is to consider whether a translator looking at the
> original message message in isolation is going to understand what the %s
> means. If it's possible to tell what it is without having to go read
> the source code that leads to the message, then you don't need a
> "translator:" comment. Otherwise you do.

Agree. I think it's easy for one to guess the slot name follows "....
replication slot %s", so I removed the translator message.

> > SUGGESTION (#1a and #1b)
> >
> > ereport(log_replication_commands ? LOG : DEBUG1,
> > errmsg(SlotIsLogical(s)
> > ? "acquired logical replication slot \"%s\""
> > : "acquired physical replication slot \"%s\"",
> > NameStr(s->data.name)));
>
> The bad thing about this is that gettext() is not going to pick up these
> strings into the translation catalog. You could fix that by adding
> gettext_noop() calls around them:
>
> ereport(log_replication_commands ? LOG : DEBUG1,
> errmsg(SlotIsLogical(s)
> ? gettext_noop("acquired logical replication slot \"%s\"")
> : gettext_noop("acquired physical replication slot \"%s\""),
> NameStr(s->data.name)));
>
> but at that point it's not clear that it's really better than putting
> the ternary in the outer scope.

I retained wrapping messages in errmsg("...").

> You can verify this by doing "make update-po" and then searching for the
> messages in postgres.pot.

Translation gives me [1] with v18 patch

PSA v18 patch.

[1]
#: replication/slot.c:545
#, c-format
msgid "acquired logical replication slot \"%s\""
msgstr ""

#: replication/slot.c:547
#, c-format
msgid "acquired physical replication slot \"%s\""
msgstr ""

#: replication/slot.c:622
#, c-format
msgid "released logical replication slot \"%s\""
msgstr ""

#: replication/slot.c:624
#, c-format
msgid "released physical replication slot \"%s\""
msgstr ""

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