PostgreSQL Coding Conventions

PostgreSQL 8.2.3 Documentation
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# Chapter 45. PostgreSQL Coding Conventions

Table of Contents
45.1. Formatting
45.2. Reporting Errors Within the Server
45.3. Error Message Style Guide
  45.3.1. What goes where
  45.3.2. Formatting
  45.3.3. Quotation marks
  45.3.4. Use of quotes
  45.3.5. Grammar and punctuation
  45.3.6. Upper case vs. lower case
  45.3.7. Avoid passive voice
  45.3.8. Present vs past tense
  45.3.9. Type of the object
  45.3.10. Brackets
  45.3.11. Assembling error messages
  45.3.12. Reasons for errors
  45.3.13. Function names
  45.3.14. Tricky words to avoid
  45.3.15. Proper spelling
  45.3.16. Localization

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