Re: Missing File weather.txt - Mailing list pgsql-docs

On 2025/07/11 7:22, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>> On 5 Jul 2025, at 19:29, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>
>> Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com> writes:
>>> On 2020/01/28 19:18, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>
>> +1
>>
>>> In the tutorial, three rows are inserted using INSERT, so shouldn't
>>> the sample input for COPY include all three, like this?
>>
>> Agreed, the example file should match what the tutorial expects to be
>> in the table.  I'd include text along the lines of "The data inserted
>> above could also be inserted from a file containing:".
> 
> The attached v2 adds the missing line, and tweaks the text added to document
> the file.

Thanks for updating the patch! LGTM.

Just one small comment:

+Hayward    37    54    0.0    1994-11-29

This row is inserted using the following INSERT statement:

     INSERT INTO weather (date, city, temp_hi, temp_lo)
         VALUES ('1994-11-29', 'Hayward', 54, 37);

Since the prcp column isn't specified, its value is NULL. So shouldn't
the fourth field in the data line above be \N instead of 0.0?


>  Since there have been reports I propose backpatching this all the
> way down to 13 while at it.

+1

Regards,

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Fujii Masao
NTT DATA Japan Corporation