Re: color by default

Jonah H. Harris <jonah.harris@gmail.com>

From: "Jonah H. Harris" <jonah.harris@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-03-21T04:25:28Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 8:35 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > With the attached patch, I propose to enable the colored output by
> > default in PG13.
>
> FWIW, I shall be setting NO_COLOR permanently if this gets committed.
> I wonder how many people there are who actually *like* colored output?
> I find it to be invariably less readable than plain B&W text.
>

Same.


> I may well be in the minority, but I think some kind of straw poll
> might be advisable, rather than doing this just because.
>

+1 on no color by default.

-- 
Jonah H. Harris

Commits

  1. Document color support