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    Add a nonlocalized version of the severity field to client error messages. · 26fa446d
    Tom Lane authored
    This has been requested a few times, but the use-case for it was never
    entirely clear.  The reason for adding it now is that transmission of
    error reports from parallel workers fails when NLS is active, because
    pq_parse_errornotice() wrongly assumes that the existing severity field
    is nonlocalized.  There are other ways we could have fixed that, but the
    other options were basically kluges, whereas this way provides something
    that's at least arguably a useful feature along with the bug fix.
    
    Per report from Jakob Egger.  Back-patch into 9.6, because otherwise
    parallel query is essentially unusable in non-English locales.  The
    problem exists in 9.5 as well, but we don't want to risk changing
    on-the-wire behavior in 9.5 (even though the possibility of new error
    fields is specifically called out in the protocol document).  It may
    be sufficient to leave the issue unfixed in 9.5, given the very limited
    usefulness of pq_parse_errornotice in that version.
    
    Discussion: <A88E0006-13CB-49C6-95CC-1A77D717213C@eggerapps.at>
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