Re: Missing File weather.txt

On 2020/01/28 19:18, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>> On 28 Jan 2020, at 03:22, PG Doc comments form <noreply(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:
>>
>> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
>>
>> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/tutorial-populate.html
>> Description:
>>
>> On this page https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/tutorial-populate.html you
>> have this command:
>>
>> COPY weather FROM '/home/user/weather.txt';
>>
>> I've searched all over for weather.txt and can't find it. Please could you
>> make this and any other files required for the tutorial available and
>> provide clear instructions for accessing them at the beginning of the
>> tutorial.
>
> This is only mentioned as an example of another input method, with a link to
> the COPY page for more information. That being said, it's a good thing for a
> tutorial to be self-contained, and going from a basic tutorial to the COPY
> reference page is a fairly large step. I propose that we add a small example
> on what weather.txt could look like as per the attached diff.

Sorry for reviving this old thread, but I wanted to follow up since
the same issue was reported again in [1], and the proposed patch
basically looks good to me.

Regarding the patch:

+<programlisting>
+San Francisco 46 50 0.25 1994-11-27
+Hayward 37 54 0.0 1994-11-29
+</programlisting>

In the tutorial, three rows are inserted using INSERT, so shouldn't
the sample input for COPY include all three, like this?

San Francisco 46 50 0.25 1994-11-27
San Francisco 43 57 0 1994-11-29
Hayward 37 54 \N 1994-11-29

Regards,

[1] https://postgr.es/m/175166227769.3157504.1136715805440673517@wrigleys.postgresql.org

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