Re: [HACKERS] Help text for pg_basebackup -R

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Wednesday, February 15, 2017, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Magnus Hagander wrote:
> >
> > >       printf(_("  -R, --write-recovery-conf\n"
> > > -                      "                         write recovery.conf
> > after backup\n"));
> > > +                      "                         write recovery.conf for
> > replication\n"));
> > >       printf(_("  -S, --slot=SLOTNAME    replication slot to use\n"));
> >
> > LGTM.
> >
> I'm guessing if we backpatch something like that, it would cause issues for
> translations, right? So we should make it head only?

We've had the argument a number of times.  My stand is that many
translators are active in the older branches, so this update would be
caught there too; and even if not, an updated English message is better
than an outdated native-language message.

Now, that's been argued in the context of a bug fix that introduces new
messages or changed an existing message for other reasons.  I'm not sure
how strongly do we think it applies for a change that's *only* about
updating a message.  I'm +0.5 on back-patching the change in this case.

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