Re: PG_COLOR not mentioned in docs of vacuumlo, oid2name and pgbench

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>
Cc: Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-03-04T13:05:30Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 11:31:27AM +0100, Fabien COELHO wrote:
> No objection. I did not know there was such a thing…
> 
> Maybe a more detailed explanation about PG_COLOR could be stored somewhere,
> and all affected tools could link to it? Or not.

One argument against that position is that each tool may just handle a
subset of the full set available, and that some of the subsets may
partially intersect.  Fun.

> For "pgbench", you could also add the standard sentence that it uses libpq
> environment variables, as it is also missing?

Yeah, that's true.  Let's fix this part while on it.
--
Michael

Commits

  1. Doc: fix some description of environment variables with frontend tools