Re: color by default

From: "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: color by default
Date: 2020-03-21 04:25:28
Message-ID: CADUqk8VBJdNFVT9en530E2hRPSwSqbo6ewhnimEQbJ1syQMvMw@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 8:35 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)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.

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Jonah H. Harris

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