Re: Logical Replication - detail message with names of missing columns

On 2020-Sep-11, Tom Lane wrote:

> > How about quoting all the individual columns? Looks like quote_identifier()
> > doesn't serve our purpose here as it selectively quotes or quotes all
> > identifiers only in case quote_all_identifiers config variable is set.
>
> NO. The convention is to write \"...\" in the translatable message.
> Not all languages use double quote symbols for this purpose, so that
> way lets translators replace them with something else.
>
> Yeah, this means that messages containing names that contain double
> quotes might be a bit ambiguous. We live with it.

There is a problem here though, which is that the quoted strings in
question are part of a list of columns. There's no way to keep that
list as a translatable string, so that approach doesn't work here.
What appears in the translatable string is:

logical replication target relation "%s" is missing replicated columns: %s

Or in the singular case:
logical replication target relation "%s" is missing replicated columns: %s

where the second %s is the list of columns.

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