Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> Note that only glibc supports switching the language at run time.  And
> doing it is probably very expensive if you want to do it twice per
> message.

Ouch :-(

> I think you could probably get much of the use case out of this if you
> concentrate on making two switches for the client and the log, which can
> be set to a language or "untranslated", and if you choose a language it
> has to be the same for both.

So we'd go with a single setting to define language, which would be the
current lc_messages, and two new settings, say translate_log_messages
and translate_client_messages, the latter being USERSET.

Does that sound reasonable?

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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