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Chapter 49. PostgreSQL Coding Conventions

Table of Contents

49.1. Formatting

49.2. Reporting Errors Within the Server

49.3. Error Message Style Guide

49.3.1. What Goes Where
49.3.2. Formatting
49.3.3. Quotation Marks
49.3.4. Use of Quotes
49.3.5. Grammar and Punctuation
49.3.6. Upper Case vs. Lower Case
49.3.7. Avoid Passive Voice
49.3.8. Present vs. Past Tense
49.3.9. Type of the Object
49.3.10. Brackets
49.3.11. Assembling Error Messages
49.3.12. Reasons for Errors
49.3.13. Function Names
49.3.14. Tricky Words to Avoid
49.3.15. Proper Spelling
49.3.16. Localization

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