Chapter 44. PostgreSQL Coding Conventions

Table of Contents
44.1. Formatting
44.2. Reporting Errors Within the Server
44.3. Error Message Style Guide
44.3.1. What goes where
44.3.2. Formatting
44.3.3. Quotation marks
44.3.4. Use of quotes
44.3.5. Grammar and punctuation
44.3.6. Upper case vs. lower case
44.3.7. Avoid passive voice
44.3.8. Present vs past tense
44.3.9. Type of the object
44.3.10. Brackets
44.3.11. Assembling error messages
44.3.12. Reasons for errors
44.3.13. Function names
44.3.14. Tricky words to avoid
44.3.15. Proper spelling
44.3.16. Localization