Re: Increase footprint of %m and reduce strerror()

On Wed, Dec 04, 2019 at 03:32:11PM +0900, Kyotaro Horiguchi wrote:
> It sounds good to me. Message unification (including printf) needs
> somehow treating trailing new lines, though. About translation
> burden, I'm not sure how the message unification eases translators'
> work. Identical messages of different commands appear having different
> neighbours in different po files.

Newlines are a problem. Still there are cases where we don't use
them. See for example pg_waldump.c. It seems like it would be first
interesting to fix the code paths where we know we can reduce the
duplicates.

> By the way aren't we going to have ereport on frontend?

Not sure that this will happen, there are quite a few things to
consider related to what error hints and such should be for frontends.
That's quite a different discussion..
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Michael