Re: [HACKERS] Help text for pg_basebackup -R

On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 5:21 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> * Alvaro Herrera (alvherre@2ndquadrant.com) wrote:
>> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>> I'm guessing if we backpatch something like that, it would cause issues for
>>> translations, right? So we should make it head only?

>> We've had the argument a number of times.  My stand is that many
>> translators are active in the older branches, so this update would be
>> caught there too; and even if not, an updated English message is better
>> than an outdated native-language message.

> That makes sense to me, at least, so +1, for my part.

Yeah, if the existing message text is actually wrong or misleading,
we should back-patch.  I'm not sure I would do that if it's just a
cosmetic improvement.  In this particular case, +1.