On 2020-Sep-11, Tom Lane wrote: > > How about quoting all the individual columns? Looks like quote_identifier() > > doesn't serve our purpose here as it selectively quotes or quotes all > > identifiers only in case quote_all_identifiers config variable is set. > > NO. The convention is to write \"...\" in the translatable message. > Not all languages use double quote symbols for this purpose, so that > way lets translators replace them with something else. > > Yeah, this means that messages containing names that contain double > quotes might be a bit ambiguous. We live with it.
There is a problem here though, which is that the quoted strings in question are part of a list of columns. There's no way to keep that list as a translatable string, so that approach doesn't work here. What appears in the translatable string is: logical replication target relation "%s" is missing replicated columns: %s Or in the singular case: logical replication target relation "%s" is missing replicated columns: %s where the second %s is the list of columns. -- Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
