Re: Minor fixes for upcoming version 13

Alexander Law <exclusion@gmail.com>

From: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-09-09T16:16:16Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hello Tom,

09.09.2020 18:29, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com> writes:
>> Please consider fixing minor defects in the source code and documentation.
> I agree with all of these, except the markup fixes in bgworker.sgml
> still seem not right; it should be more like
>
>   <function>RegisterBackgroundWorker(<type>BackgroundWorker</type> *<parameter>worker</parameter>)</function>
Yes, but I've tried to minimize the change and align with the adjacent
text. For example:
<para>Once running, the process can connect to a database by calling
   <function>BackgroundWorkerInitializeConnection(<parameter>char
*dbname</parameter>...
>> 6. "unhandled previous state in xqs" -> "unhandled previous state at end
>> quote"?
>> "xqs" is rather cryptic for a user-visible message
> But it's not user-visible is it?  That should surely be a can't-happen
> case.
I've encountered this while translating NLS messages in postgres.po and
ecpg.po. So I think it should at least puzzle translators.

Best regards,
Alexander



Commits

  1. Minor fixes in docs and error messages.