Re: BUG #6066: [PATCH] Mark more strings as c-format

Excerpts from Christoph Berg's message of vie jun 17 07:10:34 -0400 2011:
> Re: To pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org 2011-06-17 <20110617091114.GC4130@msgid.df7cb.de>
> > Unfortunately that doesn't help in this case, as the bad string isn't
> > tagged as "#, c-format", but still gets used as such. This seems to be
> > the case for many errhint() strings. Maybe xgettext should be taught
> > to treat all errhint() et al arguments as c-strings.
>
> Here's a patch to implement that, with backend/nls.mk updated.
>
> msgfmt -c is already available in the "maintainer-check-po" target.
> I'd assume this was called at least once during the release process.

Yeah, msgfmt -c is called pretty frequently on the translation service
http://babel.postgresql.org.

Thanks for the patch, I'll have a look at integrating it.

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