Re: Help text for pg_basebackup -R

On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 5:21 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> writes:
> > * Alvaro Herrera (alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com) wrote:
> >> Magnus Hagander wrote:
> >>> I'm guessing if we backpatch something like that, it would cause
> issues for
> >>> translations, right? So we should make it head only?
>
> >> We've had the argument a number of times. My stand is that many
> >> translators are active in the older branches, so this update would be
> >> caught there too; and even if not, an updated English message is better
> >> than an outdated native-language message.
>
> > That makes sense to me, at least, so +1, for my part.
>
> Yeah, if the existing message text is actually wrong or misleading,
> we should back-patch. I'm not sure I would do that if it's just a
> cosmetic improvement. In this particular case, +1.
>

OK. Applied and backpatched.

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