Re: [WIP] plpgsql is not translate-aware

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> --- this looks like it could result in passing a NULL to dgettext,
>> somewhere along the line. Probably safer to pass "postgres".

> Hmm, I was trusting that dgettext is documented to accept a NULL as
> meaning "use the domain previously set with textdomain", but then it is
> possible that elog() will be called before textdomain is set, so you
> might be right. Fixed in this new version.

Another way, which would save some amount of string constant space,
is to have both elog_finish and the ereport macro pass NULL, and let
errstart insert the default:

> + edata->domain = domain ? domain : "postgres";

Otherwise we'll have at least one copy of "postgres" per backend .o
file ...

regards, tom lane