Re: PGCOLOR? (Re: pgsql: Unified logging system for command-line programs)

From: Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PGCOLOR? (Re: pgsql: Unified logging system for command-line programs)
Date: 2019-04-09 12:01:12
Message-ID: 20190409120112.GC1961@msg.df7cb.de
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Re: Peter Eisentraut 2019-04-09 <d483cdb6-db98-9b2f-7f2b-eed0f4bd975d(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
> I'm okay with changing it. As you indicate, I chose the name so that it
> doesn't look like a libpq variable. There are some other PG_ variables
> throughout the code, but those appear to be mostly for internal use.
> Also, there is GCC_COLORS, LS_COLORS, etc. But perhaps this wisdom will
> be lost on users who just read the man page and get confused. ;-)

Do we need two variables to control this? I was only looking at
PG_COLOR, and noticed PG_COLORS only later. Keeping PG_COLORS aligned
with {GCC,LS}_COLORS makes sense. How about removing PG_COLOR, and
making "auto" the default? (Maybe we could still support "PG_COLORS=off")

Christoph

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