Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander(at)timescale(dot)com> writes:
>> As Tom said in [1], we don't need to touch the *.po files, since those
>> files are managed by the translation team.
> True, but I figured that simplifying the work of the translation team would
> not harm either.
It would not simplify things for them at all, just mess it up.
The master copies of the .po files are kept in a different repo.
Also, I believe that extraction of new message strings is automated
already.
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/nls.html
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/NLS
regards, tom lane