Re: 2.4 Tutorial COPY weather.txt -- From where?

On 2025/07/05 5:51, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
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> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/17/tutorial-populate.html
> Description:
>
> I'm trying to read the docs/tutorial from start to finish, and I made it to
> the end of "2.4. Populating a Table With Rows" before getting confused. and
> see `COPY weather FROM '/home/user/weather.txt';` referenced as an
> alternative example to running all the individual inserts. This confused me
> because I spent time looking for a link to download this, and eventually
> skimming through /src/tutorial/* on github, and couldn't find it anywhere.
> Now I'm thinking it doesn't exist anywhere, but it would be nice if (A) it
> was specified explicitly that this example file doesn't exist anywhere for
> download, or (B) provide a link to the github or similar where a plain text
> file can be downloaded for loading tutorial datasets.
> Thank you, and happy 4th of July

Thanks for the report! Daniel has added the weather.txt example to the docs [1].
It will appear at v17 docs on the website after the next minor release.

Regards,

[1] https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=f6ffbeda00e08c4c8ac8cf72173f84157491bfde

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