Re: [Minor] Conflicting sentence in "2.4. Populating a Table With Rows" - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From David G. Johnston
Subject Re: [Minor] Conflicting sentence in "2.4. Populating a Table With Rows"
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On Monday, September 28, 2026, PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org> wrote:
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Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/tutorial-populate.html
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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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