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To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
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Cc: PostgreSQL Developers <[email protected]>
Cc: Amit Kapila <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Get rid of translation strings that only contain punctuation
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:26:54 +1000
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On Wed, Apr 22, 2026 at 12:32 PM Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Peter Smith <[email protected]> writes:
> > Case#1: publication "XXX" has a problem
> > Case#2: the following publications have a problem: "XXX", "YYY", "ZZZ"
>
> Entirely aside from the mechanics of producing the output,
> I am not sure I buy that emitting that is a desirable goal.
> It seems to be based on an English-centric notion that singular
> and indefinitely-many plural are the only two categories.
> This is incorrect (see the documentation for ngettext()).
>
Those case#1 and case#2 were just illustrative. The real code is using
`errmsg_plural` and `errdetail_plural`, so I think that makes it ok
for languages that have multiple forms of "plural".
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Kind Regards,
Peter Smith.
Fujitsu Australia
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