Re: Missing latex-longtable value

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Missing latex-longtable value
Date: 2015-07-07 17:05:09
Message-ID: 27164.1436288709@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 11:48:13AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> It's a bug. Back-patch as needed.

> Doesn't that cause translation string differences that are worse than
> the original bug, e.g.:
> psql_error("\\pset: allowed formats are unaligned, aligned, wrapped, html, asciidoc, latex, latex-longtable, troff-ms\n");

No. When we've discussed this sort of thing in the past, people have been
quite clear that they'd rather have accurate messages that come out in
English than inaccurate-though-localized messages. Certainly we should
avoid gratuitous changes in back-branch localized strings, but this is a
factual error in the message.

regards, tom lane

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