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From: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>
To: mattsmathclassofficial@gmail.com
To: pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: 2.4 Tutorial COPY weather.txt -- From where?
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2025 08:30:31 +0900
Message-ID: <0f9c0f66-5c07-4694-8afa-b34cfbae7e10@oss.nttdata.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <175166227769.3157504.1136715805440673517@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
References: <175166227769.3157504.1136715805440673517@wrigleys.postgresql.org>



On 2025/07/05 5:51, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
> 
> 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=f6ffbeda00e08c4c8ac8cf72173f84157...

-- 
Fujii Masao
NTT DATA Japan Corporation

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