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From: Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
To: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: translator comments for GUC descriptions useful?
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2025 10:57:23 +0100
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

On 2025-Nov-07, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> One random idea I had is that we could automatically generate "translator"
> comments on the short and long description strings of GUC parameters.  So
> the PO entries could then look like this:
> 
> #. translator: GUC huge_pages_status short description
> #: utils/misc/guc_tables.c:5020
> msgid "Indicates the status of huge pages."
> msgstr ""

I like this -- yes, please.

> I suppose the only possible disadvantage is that it would use more vertical
> space.

I don't think this is a problem.  Translators are likely using GUI
software (at least those that aren't using Vim or Emacs).

> (Any related ideas while we're here?)

Maybe extract each GUC name and grep all errmsg/errdetail/errhint
strings to make sure the name isn't used verbatim (but only via %s
expansion).  (Not really sure to what extent this idea is related to
yours, but it's what I got while looking at guc_parameters.dat.)

-- 
Álvaro Herrera        Breisgau, Deutschland  —  https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/

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