SQL Conventions // PL/pgSQL Procedures You Can Still Read in Two Years
If you write a stored procedure, you write it for someone who doesn’t know it — usually for yourself, 18 months later, at 11 p.m., while an ETL run is stuck. Readability isn’t cosmetics, it’s debugging time. PostgreSQL forces almost nothing on you: names are free, indentation doesn’t matter, a RAISE EXCEPTION swallows any string you assemble inline. That’s exactly … Read more