Re: color by default

On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 10:15:57PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 02:31:01PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 01:00:44PM +0100, Juan José Santamaría Flecha wrote:
> > > - The new entry in the documentation, specially as the PG_COLORS parameter
> > > seems to be currently undocumented. The programs that can use PG_COLOR
> > > would benefit from getting a link to it.
> >
> > The actual problem here is that we don't have an actual centralized
> > place where we could put that stuff. And anything able to use this
> > option is basically anything using src/common/logging.c.
> >
> > Regarding PG_COLORS, the commit message of cc8d415 mentions it, but we
> > have no actual example of how to use it, and the original thread has
> > zero reference to it:
> > https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/6a609b43-4f57-7348-6480-bd022f924310@2ndquadrant.com
> >
> > And in fact, it took me a while to figure out that using it is a mix
> > of three keywords ("error", "warning" or "locus") separated by colons
> > which need to have an equal sign to the color defined. Here is for
> > example how to make the locus show up in yellow with errors in blue:
> > export PG_COLORS='error=01;34:locus=01;33'
> >
> > Having to dig into the code to find out that stuff is not a good user
> > experience. And I found out about that only because I worked on a
> > patch touching this area yesterday.
>
> I can confirm there is still no mention of PG_COLORS in our
> documentation.

My mistake, PG_COLOR (not PG_COLORS) is documented properly.

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