On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 10:49:01PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 02:53:13PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > While looking at fe-auth.c I noticed quite a few places that weren't
> > bothering to make error messages localizable (ie, missing libpq_gettext
> > calls), and/or were failing to add a trailing newline as expected in
> > libpq error messages. Perhaps these are intentional but I doubt it.
> > Most of the instances seemed to be SSPI-related.
> >
> > I have no intention of fixing these myself, but whoever committed that
> > code should take a second look.
>
> I looked through that file and only found two cases; patch attached.
Tom mentioned newline omissions, which you'll find in pg_SSPI_error().
> ! printfPQExpBuffer(&conn->errorMessage,
> libpq_gettext("SSPI returned invalid number of output buffers\n"));
> ! libpq_gettext("fe_sendauth: error
> sending password authentication\n"));
The first message is too internals-focused for a translation to be useful. If
it were in the backend, we would use elog() and not translate. The second is
a non-actionable message painting over a wide range of specific failures;
translating it would just put lipstick on the pig.
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