Re: BUG #7811: strlen(NULL) cause psql crash

On 15.01.2013 20:10, Tom Lane wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas<hlinnakangas@vmware.com>  writes:
>> I committed a local fix to help.c to print "none" as the database name
>> when not connected.
>
> I think that patch could use more thought.  As is, it will print
>
>     connect to new database (currently "none")
>
> which to me is claiming that we are connected to a database whose name
> is "none".  The quotes should not be used in this situation, and in
> fact it would be better for translatability if the whole message text
> were specialized to this case.  I'd like to see it reading more like
>
>     connect to new database (currently no connection)

Hmm, that'd introduce a new quite visible string into back-branches that
needs to be translated, which I think we try to avoid. I'll change that
in master, but back-branches?

- Heikki