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

From: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
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Subject: Re: [Minor] Conflicting sentence in "2.4. Populating a Table With Rows"
Date: 2026-09-28 19:35:04
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> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
>
> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/tutorial-populate.html
> Description:
>
> Where it says "The data inserted above into the weather table could also be
> inserted from a file containing (values are separated by a tab
> character)...":
> The data is already inserted from a file in the example, it should say "The
> file should have a structure supported by the COPY command, i.e. (values
> are
> separated by a tab character):"
>
>
Yeah, that last part could use some cleanup. I’d probably rewrite it using
csv though instead of tab-delimited so as to remove the need for a
parenthetical.

David J.

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