Re: BUG #7811: strlen(NULL) cause psql crash - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: BUG #7811: strlen(NULL) cause psql crash
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Msg-id 29520.1358274561@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: BUG #7811: strlen(NULL) cause psql crash  (Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com>)
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Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com> writes:
> On 15.01.2013 20:10, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I think that patch could use more thought.  As is, it will print
>>    connect to new database (currently "none")
>> which to me is claiming that we are connected to a database whose name
>> is "none".  The quotes should not be used in this situation, and in
>> fact it would be better for translatability if the whole message text
>> were specialized to this case.  I'd like to see it reading more like
>>    connect to new database (currently no connection)

> Hmm, that'd introduce a new quite visible string into back-branches that
> needs to be translated, which I think we try to avoid.

But you already introduced "none" as a stand-alone (and probably almost
untranslatable without context) string.  That's better?

            regards, tom lane

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