Re: Internationalized error messages

On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 09:00:09PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 11:49:50PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >> I really feel that translated error messages need to happen soon.
> 
> Agreed.

 Yes, error codes is *very* wanted feature.

> 
> 	ERROR: Attribute "foo" not found  -- basic message for dumb frontends
> 	ERRORCODE: UNREC_IDENT		-- key for finding localized message
> 	PARAM1: foo	-- something to embed in the localized message
> 	MESSAGE: Attribute or table name not known within context of query
> 	CODELOC: src/backend/parser/parse_clause.c line 345
> 	QUERYLOC: 22

 Great idea! I agree that we need some powerful Error protocol instead 
currect string based messages.
 
 For transaltion to other languages I not sure with gettext() stuff on
backend -- IMHO better (faster) solution will postgres system catalog
with it.

 May be add new command too: SET MESSAGE_LANGUAGE TO <xxx>, because
wanted language not must be always same as locale setting.

 Something like elog(ERROR, gettext(...)); is usable, but not sounds good 
for me.

			Karel

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