Re: [HACKERS] error messages not only English

Vadim writes:
> Andreas Zeugswetter wrote:
> >
> > Anyway, we are still missing the first step in this direction: enumerate ERROR messages.
>
> BTW, are error codes in standard ?

Some are. There is also a format for standard severity levels etc.

On the internationalized message topic, how about storing all the messages
in a text file. This file would be opened (but not read) at startup by each
backend (and the postmaster). To change languages, just open a different
file. ELOG would scan the message file to get the message text corresponding
to an errog code. Since reading a pre-opened text file does not depend on
much of the system working, it should work even in the catastrophic cases.

To keep performance good for frequently issued messages, the backend could
keep an in memory LRU cache of a few dozen messages and only search the file
when the message was not in the cache. This cache could be a simple
sequentially searched array as error messages are not a real performance
influence except in extremely pathological cases.

-dg

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