Re: BufFileRead() error signalling

On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 9:03 PM Michael Paquier <michael@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.GB1603@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.

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