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Re: GUC names in messages

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>

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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>, Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-12-08T12:55:28Z
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On 2023-Dec-08, Peter Smith wrote:

> Patch 0001 -- "datestyle" becomes DateStyle in messages
> Rebased this again, which was part of an earlier patch set
> - I think any GUC names documented as MixedCase should keep that same
> case in messages; this also obeys the guidelines recently pushed [1].

I agree.

> Patch 0002 -- use mixed case for intervalstyle error message
> I found that the GUC name substituted to the error message was coming
> from the statement, not from the original name in the guc_tables, so
> there was a case mismatch:

I agree.  Let's also add a test that shows this difference (my 0002
here).

I'm annoyed that this saga has transiently created a few untranslated
strings by removing unnecessary quotes but failing to move the variable
names outside the translatable part of the string.  I change a few of
those in 0003 -- mostly the ones in strings already touched by commit
8d9978a7176a, but also a few others.  Didn't go out of my way to grep
for other possible messages to fix, though.  (I feel like this is
missing some "translator:" comments.)

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Álvaro Herrera         PostgreSQL Developer  —  https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/
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Commits

  1. Apply GUC name from central table in more places of guc.c

  2. Use camel case for "DateStyle" in some error messages

  3. Unify some error messages to ease work of translators

  4. Apply more quoting to GUC names in messages

  5. Revise GUC names quoting in messages again

  6. doc: Mention how to use quotes with GUC names in error messages

  7. Apply quotes more consistently to GUC names in logs