From: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>
To: Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Redundant/mis-use of _(x) gettext macro?
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2026 11:25:07 +0200
Message-ID: <aeniYoOwCQmtWtQW@alvherre.pgsql> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHut+PuD2pGMEKmk2dFA+guzxBEOas5+=LAm5E+SM2LU35KOnQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 2026-Apr-23, Peter Smith wrote:
> v2 removes translation of the comma separator, due to the discussion
> over at [1].
Hmm, at least Japanese uses a different character for commas, and
apparently French likes to add a space, so I think this is a bad move.
I think we could handle these things by including the comma together
with the literal in each element of the list being constructed, as in
the attached.
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Álvaro Herrera 48°01'N 7°57'E — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/Attachments:0001-change-translation-markers-in-GetPublicationsStr.patch (text/x-diff, 1.8K) download
From 8b92dce1a64d623e76019a4b83576458defd63e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?=C3=81lvaro=20Herrera?= <alvherre@kurilemu.de>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2026 11:10:54 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] change translation markers in GetPublicationsStr
---
src/backend/catalog/pg_subscription.c | 23 ++++++++++++++---------
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/pg_subscription.c b/src/backend/catalog/pg_subscription.cindex 1f1fdc75af6..d1e2e9de468 100644--- a/src/backend/catalog/pg_subscription.c+++ b/src/backend/catalog/pg_subscription.c@@ -41,31 +41,36 @@ static List *textarray_to_stringlist(ArrayType *textarray);
/*
* Add a comma-separated list of publication names to the 'dest' string.
+ *+ * If quote_literal is true, the returned list can be used to construct an SQL+ * command, thus no translation is applied. Otherwise, the string can be used+ * to create a user-facing message, so translatable quote marks are added.
*/
void
GetPublicationsStr(List *publications, StringInfo dest, bool quote_literal)
{
ListCell *lc;
- bool first = true;+ int length = list_length(publications);
Assert(publications != NIL);
foreach(lc, publications)
{
char *pubname = strVal(lfirst(lc));
-- if (first)- first = false;- else- appendStringInfoString(dest, ", ");+ bool last = foreach_current_index(lc) >= length - 1;
if (quote_literal)
+ {
appendStringInfoString(dest, quote_literal_cstr(pubname));
+ if (!last)+ appendStringInfoString(dest, ", ");+ }
else
{
- appendStringInfoChar(dest, '"');- appendStringInfoString(dest, pubname);- appendStringInfoChar(dest, '"');+ if (last)+ appendStringInfo(dest, _("\"%s\""), pubname);+ else+ appendStringInfo(dest, _("\"%s\", "), pubname);
}
}
}
--
2.47.3
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