Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of jue ago 09 12:40:08 -0400 2012:
> Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes:
> > On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> >> If we do go with the %s-for-a-SQL-keyword approach, it would then become
> >> tempting to force-fit all of the cases into that style.
> 
> > I don't really like this, though.  I don't think an error cursor is a
> > good substitute for a clear statement of the categorical rule; or to
> > put that another way, I think that forcing all of those messages into
> > this model is going to be awkward.
> 
> Fair enough.  I was not sold on doing that either.  I would still like
> to know if it's okay to use one string with %s for the cases where
> there's not a good reason for the "context" to be more than just a
> SQL keyword.  That would save a few lines of code and also reduce
> the number of strings for translators to deal with; so if it's not
> horrid from a translation-quality standpoint, it seems worth doing.

Yes, that part seems to work fine -- at least I haven't seen any
translator complaining.

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