Re: Translation of the NextOID message in pg_controldata

On 2026-Sep-14, Michael Paquier wrote:

> The magic solution I can think of is to remove the markers from the
> translatable strings, and replace them with a set of %s, as of the
> attached patch, then use a pre-built string that itself uses
> OID8_FORMAT. I am pretty sure we have used this method in other
> places of the tree, but I cannot pinpoint where, on top of my mind.

Yeah, we used to do that for long long, until we got rid of it using the
%z format instead. I was happy about no longer having that coding
pattern TBH.

I think this change would break what I proposed in
https://postgr.es/m/202601310924.yoik5n3blgt4@alvherre.pgsql
(FTR I decided to heed Peter's advice and not implement it in the way
proposed there, but instead build some generic facility that can also be
used elsewhere.)

I'm not sure I understand why we care that we hardcode that Oid8 is the
same as uint64. It's never been a problem that Oid is the same as uin32 ...

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