Re: add log messages when replication slots become active and inactive (was Re: Is it worth adding ReplicationSlot active_pid to ReplicationSlotPersistentData?)

On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 3:58 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> wrote:
>
> Translation-wise, this doesn't work, because you're building a string.
> There's no reason to think that the words "logical" and "physical"
> should stay untranslated; the message would make no sense, or at least
> would be very ugly.
>
> You should do something like
>
> if (am_walsender)
> {
> ereport(log_replication_commands ? LOG : DEBUG1,
> SlotIsLogical(s) ? errmsg("acquired logical replication slot \"%s\"", NameStr(s->data.name)) :
> errmsg("acquired physical replication slot \"%s\"", NameStr(s->data.name)));
> }

This seems better, so done that way.

> (Obviously, lose the "translator:" comments since they are unnecessary)

The translator message now indicates that the remaining %s denotes the
replication slot name.

PSA v17 patch.

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