Re: Possible typo in an error message

On 7/10/26 06:52, Kyotaro Horiguchi wrote:
> While translating this message, I noticed the following error text:
>
> parse_jsontable.c:644:
>> errdetail("PATH name was %s not found in nested columns list.",
>
> Is this perhaps meant to be
>
> PATH name %s was not found in nested columns list.
>
> instead?

Agreed, or maybe:

"Path name %s not found in nested columns list."

From what I can see both forms are used in our error messages.

> Also, I wasn't quite sure whether the uppercase "PATH" in messages
> such as "PATH name" has any particular significance. For the
> translation, I ended up treating it as the ordinary word "path", since
> I couldn't tell whether it was intended to refer to the SQL keyword or
> just the general concept.

Agreed, it does not look like it is a keyword so it should not be
written in upper case.

> I found another occurrence of the similar wording:
>
> parse_jsontable.c:324:
>> errdetail("PATH name mismatch: expected %s but %s is given."

That looks like it should be "Path name" too.

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Andreas Karlsson
Percona