PostgreSQL Coding Conventions

PostgreSQL 9.0.17 Documentation
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# Chapter 47. PostgreSQL Coding Conventions

Table of Contents
47.1. Formatting
47.2. Reporting Errors Within the Server
47.3. Error Message Style Guide
  47.3.1. What goes where
  47.3.2. Formatting
  47.3.3. Quotation marks
  47.3.4. Use of quotes
  47.3.5. Grammar and punctuation
  47.3.6. Upper case vs. lower case
  47.3.7. Avoid passive voice
  47.3.8. Present vs past tense
  47.3.9. Type of the object
  47.3.10. Brackets
  47.3.11. Assembling error messages
  47.3.12. Reasons for errors
  47.3.13. Function names
  47.3.14. Tricky words to avoid
  47.3.15. Proper spelling
  47.3.16. Localization

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