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List:       postgresql-hackers
Subject:    Re: real/float example for testlibpq3
From:       Tom Lane <tgl () sss ! pgh ! pa ! us>
Date:       2022-02-28 22:48:50
Message-ID: 2746817.1646088530 () sss ! pgh ! pa ! us
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Chapman Flack <chap@anastigmatix.net> writes:
> This stimulates a question for me.

> Not just libpq, but all drivers implemented in whatever language, if they
> wish to support binary protocol, depend on knowing what the committed
> send/recv wire formats are for whichever types they mean to support.

> In the current state of affairs, what's considered the ur-source of that
> information?

The source code for the type's send/receive functions :-(.  One could
wish for something better, but no one has stepped up to produce such
documentation.

			regards, tom lane


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