On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 9:03 PM Michael Paquier <mich...@paquier.xyz> wrote: > That's actually not the best fit, because this does not take care of > the pluralization of the second message if you have only 1 byte to > read ;)
But ... if you have only one byte to read, you cannot have a short read. > A second point to take into account is that the unification of error > messages makes for less translation work, which is always welcome. > Those points have been discussed on this thread: > https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20180520000522.gb1...@paquier.xyz I quickly reread that thread and I don't see that there's any firm consensus there in favor of "read %d of %zu" over "read only %d of %zu bytes". Now, if most people prefer the former, so be it, but I don't think that's clear from that thread. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
