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From: SAS <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: translator comments for GUC descriptions useful?
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2025 10:02:37 +0100
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Hello,
Le 07/11/2025 à 09:53, Peter Eisentraut a écrit :
> Hi all,
>
> I've done some work recently in the source code to make the GUC C structs 
> automatically generated.  That now allows changing the output format more 
> easily.
>
> 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 ""
>
> (and analogously for the long description).
>
> This would be trivial to implement now (see below for an example).
>
> Would this be useful?

I really like the idea.

(...)

Best,

-- 
Dr Stéphane Schildknecht
Contact régional PostgreSQL pour l'Europe francophone
+33 617 11 37 42

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