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Re: NLS: use gettext() to translate system error messages

Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com> — 2025-12-26T19:33:21Z

On Tue, 2025-12-23 at 15:21 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Surely RHEL8 does not pre-date glibc's ability to translate messages.
> I suspect I have some system-wide setting for this, or maybe a
> missing package on that machine?

Probably a missing language package.

>   But anyway, I think this reinforces
> my point that we should (and do) act similarly to other programs.

It depends on the perspective. For a system administrator, what you say
makes sense. But from a Postgres user who is expecting consistent
translation, it can be a bit mysterious. And from an engineering
standpoint, translation through strerror() is not tested and -- as far
as I can tell -- only works on glibc.

Regards,
	Jeff Davis