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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: color by default
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2019 08:35:39 -0500
Message-ID: <32117.1577799339@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
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Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.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.

I may well be in the minority, but I think some kind of straw poll
might be advisable, rather than doing this just because.

			regards, tom lane





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