| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: PRI?64 vs Visual Studio (2022) |
| Date: | 2025-11-19 15:43:58 |
| Message-ID: | 1462038.1763567038@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org> writes:
> On 19.11.25 04:15, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I think we should do it
>> honestly with a regression test. It doesn't need to be very
>> complicated --- I think checking one message in one translation is
>> sufficient, so long as it includes a PRI?64 usage.
> We could generate an English message catalog that translates all
> messages unchanged, and run the whole test suite with that. This would
> exercise the whole gettext run-time machinery.
... except that if it were actually doing nothing whatsoever, you
could not tell. This seems particularly troublesome for gettext,
since its fallback behavior is exactly to return the given string.
I'd prefer a test that fails in a visible way.
regards, tom lane
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