From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-documentation <pgsql-docs@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: "Cannot" vs "could not"
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:07:35 -0400
Message-ID: <25965.1584634055@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200319155704.GC2571@momjian.us>
References: <20200319155704.GC2571@momjian.us>
Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> We use "cannot" and "could not" quite often in source code and error
> messages:
Yup.
> Is there any sense that we should have more consistency in our message
> wording?
There is specific guidance about it in our error message style guide:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/error-style-guide.html
(see under "Present vs. Past Tense"). I believe we largely conform
to that guideline, though of course exceptions sneak in from time
to time.
regards, tom lane
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