PostgreSQL 9.6.5 Documentation
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# Chapter 52. PostgreSQL Coding Conventions

Table of Contents
52.1. Formatting
52.2. Reporting Errors Within the Server
52.3. Error Message Style Guide
  52.3.1. What Goes Where
  52.3.2. Formatting
  52.3.3. Quotation Marks
  52.3.4. Use of Quotes
  52.3.5. Grammar and Punctuation
  52.3.6. Upper Case vs. Lower Case
  52.3.7. Avoid Passive Voice
  52.3.8. Present vs. Past Tense
  52.3.9. Type of the Object
  52.3.10. Brackets
  52.3.11. Assembling Error Messages
  52.3.12. Reasons for Errors
  52.3.13. Function Names
  52.3.14. Tricky Words to Avoid
  52.3.15. Proper Spelling
  52.3.16. Localization
52.4. Miscellaneous Coding Conventions
  52.4.1. C Standard
  52.4.2. Function-Like Macros and Inline Functions
  52.4.3. Writing Signal Handlers

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