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-bd022f924...@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. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> https://momjian.us EnterpriseDB https://enterprisedb.com + As you are, so once was I. As I am, so you will be. + + Ancient Roman grave inscription +
