Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Mark JSON error detail messages for translation.

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-06-13T15:03:38Z
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  1. Mark JSON error detail messages for translation.

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:52 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> The code for this is as attached.  Note that I'd rip out the normal-path
>>> tracking of line boundaries; it seems better to have a second scan of
>>> the data in the error case and save the cycles in non-error cases.
>
>> Really?!
>
> Um ... do you have a problem with that idea, and if so what?  It would
> be considerably more complicated to do it without a second pass.

Could you explain how it's broken now, and why it will be hard to fix?
 People may well want to use a cast to JSON within an exception block
as a way of testing whether strings are valid JSON.  We should not
assume that the cost of an exception is totally irrelevant, because
this might be iterated.

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Robert Haas
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