RE: A doubt about a newly added errdetail

On Tuesday, September 27, 2022 3:21 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:
> 
> On 2022-Sep-27, Kyotaro Horiguchi wrote:
> 
> > By the way, this is not an issue caused by the proposed patch, I see
> > the following message in the patch.
> >
> > -                     errdetail("Column list cannot be used
> for a partitioned table when %s is false.",
> > +                     errdetail("Column list cannot be
> specified for a partitioned
> > +table when %s is false.",
> >
> "publish_via_partition_root")));
> >
> > I think that the purpose of such separation of variable names is to
> > unify multiple messages differing only by the names (to keep
> > translation labor (relatively:p) low). In that sense, that separation
> > here is useless since I see no chance of having the same message with
> > another variable in future.
> 
> Well, it also reduces chances for typos and such, so while it's not strictly
> necessary to do it this way, I tend to prefer it on new messages.  However, as
> you say it's not very interesting when there's no possibility of duplication, so
> changing existing messages to this style when we have no other reason to
> change the message, is not a useful use of time.  In this case we're changing
> the message in another way too, so I think it's okay.

Thanks for reviewing!

Just in case I misunderstand, it seems you mean the message style[1] is OK, right ?

[1]
errdetail("Column list cannot be specified for a partitioned table when %s is false.",
     "publish_via_partition_root")));

Best regards,
Hou zj