diff --git a/src/hnswbuild.c b/src/hnswbuild.c
index 727eec3..8bd0b4a 100644
--- a/src/hnswbuild.c
+++ b/src/hnswbuild.c
@@ -192,7 +192,9 @@ CreateGraphPages(HnswBuildState * buildstate)
 
 		/* Initial size check */
 		if (etupSize > HNSW_TUPLE_ALLOC_SIZE)
-			elog(ERROR, "index tuple too large");
+			ereport(ERROR,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_PROGRAM_LIMIT_EXCEEDED),
+					 errmsg("index tuple too large")));
 
 		HnswSetElementTuple(base, etup, element);
 
@@ -696,17 +698,25 @@ InitBuildState(HnswBuildState * buildstate, Relation heap, Relation index, Index
 
 	/* Disallow varbit since require fixed dimensions */
 	if (TupleDescAttr(index->rd_att, 0)->atttypid == VARBITOID)
-		elog(ERROR, "type not supported for hnsw index");
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("type not supported for hnsw index")));
 
 	/* Require column to have dimensions to be indexed */
 	if (buildstate->dimensions < 0)
-		elog(ERROR, "column does not have dimensions");
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_INVALID_PARAMETER_VALUE),
+				 errmsg("column does not have dimensions")));
 
 	if (buildstate->dimensions > buildstate->typeInfo->maxDimensions)
-		elog(ERROR, "column cannot have more than %d dimensions for hnsw index", buildstate->typeInfo->maxDimensions);
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_PROGRAM_LIMIT_EXCEEDED),
+				 errmsg("column cannot have more than %d dimensions for hnsw index", buildstate->typeInfo->maxDimensions)));
 
 	if (buildstate->efConstruction < 2 * buildstate->m)
-		elog(ERROR, "ef_construction must be greater than or equal to 2 * m");
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_INVALID_PARAMETER_VALUE),
+				 errmsg("ef_construction must be greater than or equal to 2 * m")));
 
 	buildstate->reltuples = 0;
 	buildstate->indtuples = 0;
diff --git a/src/hnswutils.c b/src/hnswutils.c
index 446a8a1..53e3096 100644
--- a/src/hnswutils.c
+++ b/src/hnswutils.c
@@ -1369,7 +1369,9 @@ SparsevecCheckValue(Pointer v)
 	SparseVector *vec = (SparseVector *) v;
 
 	if (vec->nnz > HNSW_MAX_NNZ)
-		elog(ERROR, "sparsevec cannot have more than %d non-zero elements for hnsw index", HNSW_MAX_NNZ);
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_PROGRAM_LIMIT_EXCEEDED),
+				 errmsg("sparsevec cannot have more than %d non-zero elements for hnsw index", HNSW_MAX_NNZ)));
 }
 
 /*
diff --git a/src/ivfbuild.c b/src/ivfbuild.c
index 3c52278..5333588 100644
--- a/src/ivfbuild.c
+++ b/src/ivfbuild.c
@@ -335,14 +335,20 @@ InitBuildState(IvfflatBuildState * buildstate, Relation heap, Relation index, In
 
 	/* Disallow varbit since require fixed dimensions */
 	if (TupleDescAttr(index->rd_att, 0)->atttypid == VARBITOID)
-		elog(ERROR, "type not supported for ivfflat index");
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("type not supported for ivfflat index")));
 
 	/* Require column to have dimensions to be indexed */
 	if (buildstate->dimensions < 0)
-		elog(ERROR, "column does not have dimensions");
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_INVALID_PARAMETER_VALUE),
+				 errmsg("column does not have dimensions")));
 
 	if (buildstate->dimensions > buildstate->typeInfo->maxDimensions)
-		elog(ERROR, "column cannot have more than %d dimensions for ivfflat index", buildstate->typeInfo->maxDimensions);
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_PROGRAM_LIMIT_EXCEEDED),
+				 errmsg("column cannot have more than %d dimensions for ivfflat index", buildstate->typeInfo->maxDimensions)));
 
 	buildstate->reltuples = 0;
 	buildstate->indtuples = 0;
@@ -355,7 +361,9 @@ InitBuildState(IvfflatBuildState * buildstate, Relation heap, Relation index, In
 
 	/* Require more than one dimension for spherical k-means */
 	if (buildstate->kmeansnormprocinfo != NULL && buildstate->dimensions == 1)
-		elog(ERROR, "dimensions must be greater than one for this opclass");
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_INVALID_PARAMETER_VALUE),
+				 errmsg("dimensions must be greater than one for this opclass")));
 
 	/* Create tuple description for sorting */
 	buildstate->tupdesc = CreateTemplateTupleDesc(3);