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

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

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: scrappy@hub.org (The Hermit Hacker)
Cc: vadim@krs.ru, peter@maidstone.gov.uk, sferac@bo.nettuno.it, pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-05-26T16:11:48Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-general
> 	Hrmmm...one thing to note with any of this is that by 'hardcoding'
> in the errormsg itself, it makes it difficult to 'internationalize' a
> program...in that I can't run a single server on my machine that can
> easily deal with a 'French' customer vs an 'English' one, vs a 'Japanese'
> one...I'd have to recompile for each.
> 
> 	Vadim's other point, about putting this in the front end vs the
> backend, I think, is more appropriate, that way it is application specific
> vs server...

They could be over-ridden by any postgres backend.  I would recommend
the postmaster loading in the default, and any backend can change it. 
Have to get the exec() removed first.

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