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

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: vadim@krs.ru (Vadim Mikheev)
Cc: scrappy@hub.org, sferac@bo.nettuno.it, pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-05-26T16:08:15Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-general
> 
> The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> > 
> > Hrmmm...create an 'include/utils/errmsg.h file that is a link created by
> > configure based on a --with-language=<insert your language here>...the
> > file would contain:
> > 
> > #define <ERRMSG TOKEN> "Error message in your language"
>            ^^^^^^^^^^^^  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > 
> > Then use the TOKEN with elog...
> > 
> > If we did something like this, we wouldn't have to convert all at once
> > either, just as we pick up a new one...
> 
> Sometime ago we told about using error codes in elog (and put them to the
> client) - this would very useful for non-interactive applications...
> 
> How about to implement this ?

Added to TODO.  The first part was already there:

* allow international error message support and add error codes


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