Re: PG_COLOR not mentioned in docs of vacuumlo, oid2name and pgbench - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Michael Paquier
Subject Re: PG_COLOR not mentioned in docs of vacuumlo, oid2name and pgbench
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Msg-id 20200304125548.GM2593@paquier.xyz
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In response to Re: PG_COLOR not mentioned in docs of vacuumlo, oid2name and pgbench  (Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>)
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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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