Re: [Minor] Conflicting sentence in "2.4. Populating a Table With Rows"

From: Matemática A3K <matematica(dot)a3k(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>, "pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [Minor] Conflicting sentence in "2.4. Populating a Table With Rows"
Date: 2026-10-01 19:14:16
Message-ID: CA+FDnhKCa8eK9qtvVzhSHTLX8=BK+WhkRtbzJMiRf07sgZM_ng@mail.gmail.com
Views: Whole Thread | Raw Message | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-docs

On Thu, Oct 1, 2026 at 12:03 PM David G. Johnston <
david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 1, 2026 at 7:23 AM Matemática A3K <matematica(dot)a3k(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 1, 2026 at 5:26 AM Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 2026-09-29 at 15:00 -0300, Matemática A3K wrote:
>>>
>>> The COPY statement uses the default tab-separated TEXT format, so your
>>> CSV data
>>> wouldn't work with it.
>>>
>>
>> Good point, tab-separated should be what is shown to better align with
>> the command mentioned
>>
>
> I'd just change the command to "copy from ... format csv" ...
>

Both are OK, either would be an improvement in my POV.

I lean towards Laurenz's though because it is shorter, perhaps someone in
the list has an opinion too?

>
> David J.
>
>

In response to

Browse pgsql-docs by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message David G. Johnston 2026-10-02 06:40:09 Re: Improve "3.5. Window Functions" tutorial
Previous Message PG Doc comments form 2026-10-01 18:55:15 Improve "3.6. Inheritance" tutorial