On 2019-Dec-31, Andreas Joseph Krogh wrote: > It's easier to spot errors/warnings when they are colored/emphasized imo. > Much > like colored output from grep/diff; We humans have colored vision for a > reason.
I do use color output (and find it useful), for that reason. I'm not sure that the documentation addition properly describes the logic to be used; if it does, I'm not sure that the logic is really what we want. Is the logic in the docs supposed to be "last rule that matches wins" or "first rule that matches wins"? I think that should be explicit. Do we want to have NO_COLORS override the TERM heuristics? (I'm pretty sure we do.) OTOH we also want PG_COLORS to override NO_COLORS. Per https://no-colors.org (thanks for the link) it seems pretty clear that people who don't want colors should be already setting NO_COLORS, and everyone would be happy. It's not just PG programs that are colorizing stuff. -- Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
