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Re: splitting pg_resetwal output strings

Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de> — 2026-05-24T11:35:59Z

Hi,

On 2026-May-24, Jonathan Gonzalez V. wrote:

> On a second round a notice these two strings:
> 
> +               char *str = "First log segment after reset";
> +               thislen = internal_wcswidth(_(str), strlen(_(str)),
> encoding);
> +               if (thislen > maxlen)
> 
> and [...]

> Are never catch by the `make update-po` command, instead, the strings
> are there in the `.po.new` file commented.
> 
> Should we put them between `_()`? or is expected that it's being catch
> by the second line with the `_()` ?

Hmm, yeah, they need to be wrapped in gettext_noop() so that they are
not immediately translated (because that will be done by the _() call in
the other lines) but are picked up by msgmerge.  (I think the second one
you reference is "NextXID epoch" but it was victim of a copy-paste
failure.)

Thanks again for looking,

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