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

On Tue, 26 May 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> >
> > Peter Mount wrote:
> > >
> > > That sounds like a good idea.
> > >
> > > How about having them stored in a new system table (say pg_errormsg) which
> > > contains each possible error in all the supported languages. That way, you
> > > can have multiple language support when users from different countries use
> > > the same server?
> >
> > 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.
>
> Error messages in a system table. That is cool, and would be very easy
> to add/maintain. Would have to be loaded into C variables for use,
> however.

Why into C variables? You could have a function that returns the correct
string for the error code, and have it default if it can't access the
table.

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