Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Why does this string contain doubled spaces?
> 
> > You mean two spaces after a semicolon?   Isn't that normal?  This is the
> > string:
> 
> Normal according to what?  In any case translatable error strings are
> not supposed to attempt to do formatting, and formatting is what that
> looks like to me.

Well, wikipedia says perhaps two spaces:

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semicolon
        
        Semicolons are followed by a lower case letter, unless that letter is
        the first letter of a proper noun. They have no spaces before them, but
        one space after (possibly two when using monospaced fonts).
        
but answers.com says only one:

        http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_spaces_after_a_colon_and_semicolon
        After a semicolon, there is never more than one space.

so I have changed it to once space, and also reworded it:

        warning:  could not connect; might be caused by invalid authentication 
or
        misconfiguration.

That wording seems to match other messages better, though I feel pg_ctl
seems to have sloppy output formatting in general.

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