On Fri, Jul 4, 2025 at 5:18 PM Álvaro Herrera <alvhe...@kurilemu.de> wrote: > > On 2025-Jul-04, Japin Li wrote: > > > I've opted to directly use %X/%08X for LSN formatting in this patch, with an > > accompanying comment near LSN_FORMAT_ARGS. > > Thank you! I support this approach and intend to work on getting this > patch committed soon after some more review, unless there are further > objections. >
I am wondering whether we should question the restriction on using format macros because of translations. In fact, these format macros can actually aid translations e.g. if the translation sees LSN_FORMAT instead of %X/%X, it can use that knowledge to better translate the message since it knows that it's an LSN instead of two sets of hex numbers separated by /. If we could devise a prefix which will tell them that what comes next is a FORMAT for a special datatype, would the translation system be able to make use of this information. I am not familiar with the translation system and I might be wrong in making such an assumption. -- Best Wishes, Ashutosh Bapat
