Chapter 47. PostgreSQL Coding Conventions
- Table of Contents
- 47.1. Formatting
- 47.2. Reporting Errors Within the Server
- 47.3. Error Message Style Guide
- 47.3.1. What goes where
- 47.3.2. Formatting
- 47.3.3. Quotation marks
- 47.3.4. Use of quotes
- 47.3.5. Grammar and punctuation
- 47.3.6. Upper case vs. lower case
- 47.3.7. Avoid passive voice
- 47.3.8. Present vs past tense
- 47.3.9. Type of the object
- 47.3.10. Brackets
- 47.3.11. Assembling error messages
- 47.3.12. Reasons for errors
- 47.3.13. Function names
- 47.3.14. Tricky words to avoid
- 47.3.15. Proper spelling
- 47.3.16. Localization