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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