From: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Cc: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Cc: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: PRI?64 vs Visual Studio (2022)
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2025 18:07:16 +0100
Message-ID: <202511191705.fxfewzkxoj27@alvherre.pgsql> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1462038.1763567038@sss.pgh.pa.us>
On 2025-Nov-19, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> writes:
> > On 19.11.25 04:15, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> I think we should do it
> >> honestly with a regression test. It doesn't need to be very
> >> complicated --- I think checking one message in one translation is
> >> sufficient, so long as it includes a PRI?64 usage.
>
> > We could generate an English message catalog that translates all
> > messages unchanged, and run the whole test suite with that. This would
> > exercise the whole gettext run-time machinery.
>
> ... except that if it were actually doing nothing whatsoever, you
> could not tell.
You could feed the message catalog a translated string that differs from
the original in some simple way, say, by adding a constant prefix
"[translated]" or something like that.
--
Álvaro Herrera PostgreSQL Developer — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/
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