PostgreSQL 8.4.2 Documentation
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# Chapter 46. PostgreSQL Coding Conventions

Table of Contents
46.1. Formatting
46.2. Reporting Errors Within the Server
46.3. Error Message Style Guide
  46.3.1. What goes where
  46.3.2. Formatting
  46.3.3. Quotation marks
  46.3.4. Use of quotes
  46.3.5. Grammar and punctuation
  46.3.6. Upper case vs. lower case
  46.3.7. Avoid passive voice
  46.3.8. Present vs past tense
  46.3.9. Type of the object
  46.3.10. Brackets
  46.3.11. Assembling error messages
  46.3.12. Reasons for errors
  46.3.13. Function names
  46.3.14. Tricky words to avoid
  46.3.15. Proper spelling
  46.3.16. Localization

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