Re: Missing latex-longtable value - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Missing latex-longtable value
Date
Msg-id 20150707192150.GB12451@momjian.us
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In response to Re: Missing latex-longtable value  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Missing latex-longtable value  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On Tue, Jul  7, 2015 at 01:05:09PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > On Tue, Jul  7, 2015 at 11:48:13AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> It's a bug.  Back-patch as needed.
> 
> > Doesn't that cause translation string differences that are worse than
> > the original bug, e.g.:
> >      psql_error("\\pset: allowed formats are unaligned, aligned, wrapped, html, asciidoc, latex, latex-longtable,
troff-ms\n");
> 
> No.  When we've discussed this sort of thing in the past, people have been
> quite clear that they'd rather have accurate messages that come out in
> English than inaccurate-though-localized messages.  Certainly we should
> avoid gratuitous changes in back-branch localized strings, but this is a
> factual error in the message.

OK, good to know.

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