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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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