Re: PG_COLOR not mentioned in docs of vacuumlo, oid2name and pgbench

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>
Cc: Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PG_COLOR not mentioned in docs of vacuumlo, oid2name and pgbench
Date: 2020-03-04 12:55:48
Message-ID: 20200304125548.GM2593@paquier.xyz
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On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 10:12:23AM +0100, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> + color in diagnostics messages. Possible values are
> + <literal>always</literal>, <literal>auto</literal>,
> + <literal>never</literal>.
>
> Not being a native english speaker, I might have it backwards, but I find lists
> of values in a sentence like this to be easier to read when the final value is
> separated by a conjunction like:
>
> <item 1>, <item 2>, .. , <item n-1> and <item n>

Point received. Your suggestion is more natural to me as well. Now,
all the existing docs don't follow that style so I chose consistency.
--
Michael

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