Re: [GENERAL] RE: [HACKERS] error messages not only English

The Hermit Hacker wrote:
>
> On Tue, 26 May 1998, Vadim Mikheev wrote:
> >
> > Yes, this is nice. One note: server have to load from this table all messages
> > in a language requested by user when switching to this language - it's not
> > possible to read any table from elog() in most cases.
>
> Hrmmm...one thing to note with any of this is that by 'hardcoding'
> in the errormsg itself, it makes it difficult to 'internationalize' a
> program...in that I can't run a single server on my machine that can
> easily deal with a 'French' customer vs an 'English' one, vs a 'Japanese'
> one...I'd have to recompile for each.
>
> Vadim's other point, about putting this in the front end vs the
> backend, I think, is more appropriate, that way it is application specific
> vs server...

I didn't mean to put them in the front-end - this is another good idea :).
Yes, we could let fe-libpq to read message corresponding to received
error code in appropriate file on client side.

Vadim