Re: GUC names in messages

On 2023-Dec-08, Peter Smith wrote:

> Patch 0001 -- "datestyle" becomes DateStyle in messages
> Rebased this again, which was part of an earlier patch set
> - I think any GUC names documented as MixedCase should keep that same
> case in messages; this also obeys the guidelines recently pushed [1].

I agree.

> Patch 0002 -- use mixed case for intervalstyle error message
> I found that the GUC name substituted to the error message was coming
> from the statement, not from the original name in the guc_tables, so
> there was a case mismatch:

I agree. Let's also add a test that shows this difference (my 0002
here).

I'm annoyed that this saga has transiently created a few untranslated
strings by removing unnecessary quotes but failing to move the variable
names outside the translatable part of the string. I change a few of
those in 0003 -- mostly the ones in strings already touched by commit
8d9978a7176a, but also a few others. Didn't go out of my way to grep
for other possible messages to fix, though. (I feel like this is
missing some "translator:" comments.)

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