Re: Updated backslash consistency patch

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Updated backslash consistency patch
Date: 2008-11-07 23:24:12
Message-ID: 26630.1226100252@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> I'd rather stick with [PATTERN]. Can't we just add more spaces to keep
>> all the descriptions aligned?

> Yes, but it shortens the available space for all the texts (which could
> cause some of them to become two lines, but I didn't check) and it means
> the translations have to be updated.

The translations will get broken either way, so that doesn't seem like
much of an argument. As for length, only \z seems to be in trouble and
that could probably be shortened.

regards, tom lane

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