Re: Peter Eisentraut 2019-04-01 <e1hb1d6-00051m...@gemulon.postgresql.org>
> - Some color in the messages, similar to gcc and clang. Set
> PG_COLOR=auto to try it out. Some colors are predefined, but can be
> customized by setting PG_COLORS.
Can we rename PG_COLOR to PGCOLOR? This is the only PG* environment
variable prefixed with the extra underscore, and remembering that will
be confusing. (Like pgbench should really be named pg_bench for
consistency.) Even if it's not a libpq variable, but that's an
implementation detail that users shouldn't have to worry about.
>From reindexdb(1):
NAME
reindexdb - reindex a PostgreSQL database
ENVIRONMENT
PGDATABASE
PGHOST
PGPORT
PGUSER
Default connection parameters
PG_COLOR
Specifies whether to use color in diagnostics messages. Possible
values are always, auto, never.
Also, why doesn't this default to 'auto'? Lots of programs have moved
to using colors by default over the last years, including git and gcc.
Christoph
