Possible error in 8 beta documentation "basics.sql" > "basics.source"

Started by Stony Grunowover 21 years ago2 messagesdocs
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#1Stony Grunow
stony@luminousinc.com

First, thanks for the docs. They have been very helpful

In section 2.1 Introduction, I read

$ cd ..../src/tutorial
$ psql -s mydb
...
mydb=> \i basics.sql

Specifically, when I typed in "\i basics.sql" I got the error

basics.sql: No such file or directory

when I typed in "\i basics.source" it seemed to work.

I believe the docs should be changed from "\i basics.sql" to "\i
basics.source"

hope this was helpful

thanks
stony

#2Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: Stony Grunow (#1)
Re: Possible error in 8 beta documentation "basics.sql" > "basics.source"

Stony Grunow <stony@luminousinc.com> writes:

Specifically, when I typed in "\i basics.sql" I got the error
basics.sql: No such file or directory

I believe the docs should be changed from "\i basics.sql" to "\i
basics.source"

No, that would be wrong. However it does seem like a good idea to
transpose the directions in the README file into the SGML docs ...
you evidently missed the need to "make" the tutorial files.

regards, tom lane