Re: translator comments for GUC descriptions useful?

On 07.11.25 09:53, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> I've done some work recently in the source code to make the GUC C
> structs automatically generated.  That now allows changing the output
> format more easily.
>
> One random idea I had is that we could automatically generate
> "translator" comments on the short and long description strings of GUC
> parameters.  So the PO entries could then look like this:
>
> #. translator: GUC huge_pages_status short description
> #: utils/misc/guc_tables.c:5020
> msgid "Indicates the status of huge pages."
> msgstr ""
>
> (and analogously for the long description).

I have committed this. (It's only in the master branch right now, so it
won't be active until the messages git repository is branched, usually
in February.)