Re: [GENERAL] error messages not only English

On Fri, 22 May 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Added to TODO.
>
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I see that PostgreSQL mainly gives error messages in English, I see also that
> > in some cases there's the possibility to configure it to give messages in
> > other languages like global.c that may be configured to give messages in
> > German.
> > MySQL gives the possibility to configure it using an external file containing
> > the messages by specifying it using the parameter LANGUAGE=<language>
> > where <language> is one of the following:
> >
> >                czech
> >                english
> >                french
> >                germany
> >                italian
> >                norwegian
> >                norwegian-ny
> >                polish
> >                portuguese
> >                spanish
> >                swedish
> >
> > It will be great if we could have also this feature on PostreSQL.
> > I'm available to help on translation to Portuguese, Spanish and Italian.

Hrmmm...create an 'include/utils/errmsg.h file that is a link created by
configure based on a --with-language=<insert your language here>...the
file would contain:

#define <ERRMSG TOKEN> "Error message in your language"

Then use the TOKEN with elog...

If we did something like this, we wouldn't have to convert all at once
either, just as we pick up a new one...