On Sun, Jun 09, 2024 at 10:12:53PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > No doubt. People have done it both ways in the past, but I think > currently there's a weak consensus in favor of using one line for > such messages even when it runs past 80 columns, mainly because > that makes it easier to grep the source code for a message text.
I recall the same consensus here. Greppability matters across the board. > But: I don't see too much value in changing this particular instance, > because the line break is in a place where it would not likely cause > you to miss finding the line. You might grep for the first part of > the string or the second part, but probably not for ", which is not". > If the line break were in the middle of a phrase, there'd be more > argument for collapsing it out. Not sure these ones are worth it, either, so I'd let them be. -- Michael
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