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# Chapter 51. PostgreSQL Coding Conventions

Table of Contents
51.1. Formatting
51.2. Reporting Errors Within the Server
51.3. Error Message Style Guide
  51.3.1. What Goes Where
  51.3.2. Formatting
  51.3.3. Quotation Marks
  51.3.4. Use of Quotes
  51.3.5. Grammar and Punctuation
  51.3.6. Upper Case vs. Lower Case
  51.3.7. Avoid Passive Voice
  51.3.8. Present vs. Past Tense
  51.3.9. Type of the Object
  51.3.10. Brackets
  51.3.11. Assembling Error Messages
  51.3.12. Reasons for Errors
  51.3.13. Function Names
  51.3.14. Tricky Words to Avoid
  51.3.15. Proper Spelling
  51.3.16. Localization
51.4. Miscellaneous Coding Conventions
  51.4.1. C Standard
  51.4.2. Function-Like Macros and Inline Functions
  51.4.3. Writing Signal Handlers

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