On 2020-03-23 06:04, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 11:22:07PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 11:15:07PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Yeah, but the point is precisely that pg_logging_init()
>>> also responds to PG_COLORS, which is not documented anywhere.
>>
>> Oh, I thought it was a typo. OK, so it still an open item.
>
> Yes, I really think that we should have a new section in the docs for
> that with more meaningful examples rather than copy-paste that stuff
> across more pages of the docs. Note that 5aaa584 has plugged all the
> holes related to PG_COLOR I could find, and that pg_ctl and pg_upgrade
> initialize logging with pg_logging_init() but these two cannot use
> coloring because they have their own idea of what logging should be.
I'm giving up on making color the default, since there is clearly no
consensus.
Attached is the documentation patch reworked.
Should we delete all the repetitive mentions on the man pages?
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