Serguei Mokhov wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bruce Momjian" <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 12:16 AM
>
> ...
>
> > ! elog(CRASH, "heap_delete_%sdo: no block", (redo) ? "re" : "un");
> > ! elog(CRASH, "heap_delete_%sdo: uninitialized page", (redo) ? "re" : "un");
>
> ...
>
> This type of "dynamically constructed" messages is kinda bad for translators,
> because the parts one's replacing in the original message could be
> translated differently entirely and may not suit in the translations as they do in the originals.
> Even if they do, "re" and "un" will never make into the message catalogs, for example.
>
> Maybe it's not so crucial for these specific messages, but for sure won't
> work for general type of messages.
This is a good point. I am not too concerned about this case because it
is attempting to match an actual function name. I hope we don't do this
for more general messages. My guess is that we don't, because if we
did, some translator would have complained. :-)
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