The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 4563 Logged by: Eugene Pimenov Email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PostgreSQL version: 8.3.5 Operating system: MacOS X, FreeBSD, whatever Description: Translation of errors. Details:
Hello, I'm using ActiveRecord to connect to a postgresql database. One day it said me: “неверный входной синтаксис для типа bytea”. I said: "wtf?! what's going on”. I knew that the problem is in ActiveRecord, so I copied the error, and googled it. I found nothing. I downloaded the source code of postgresql, wrote a magick string: “grep -R "$(echo 'неверный входной синтаксис для типа bytea' | iconv -t koi8-r)" .” and found: msgid "invalid input syntax for type bytea" msgstr "<CE><C5><D7><C5><D2><CE><D9><CA> <D7><C8><CF><C4><CE><CF><CA> <D3><C9><CE><D4><C1><CB><D3><C9><D3> <C4><CC><D1> <D4><C9><D0><C1> bytea" Then I googled for “invalid input syntax for type byte rails” and found http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/1745 which seems to be the solution for my problem. Conclusion: translation of error messages is not helpful! It's harmful. My proposal: 1) Remote all translations for errors and shoot everyone in the head who wants to translate it. 2) Write a code to every translation (e.g. Error 424242 inccorrect ...), so people can actually google out a solution for their problems. Thank you. -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs
