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PostgreSQL 9.4.26 Documentation
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Chapter 50. PostgreSQL Coding Conventions

Table of Contents

50.1. Formatting

50.2. Reporting Errors Within the Server

50.3. Error Message Style Guide

50.3.1. What Goes Where
50.3.2. Formatting
50.3.3. Quotation Marks
50.3.4. Use of Quotes
50.3.5. Grammar and Punctuation
50.3.6. Upper Case vs. Lower Case
50.3.7. Avoid Passive Voice
50.3.8. Present vs. Past Tense
50.3.9. Type of the Object
50.3.10. Brackets
50.3.11. Assembling Error Messages
50.3.12. Reasons for Errors
50.3.13. Function Names
50.3.14. Tricky Words to Avoid
50.3.15. Proper Spelling
50.3.16. Localization

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