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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Wong <[email protected]>
Cc: Robert Haas <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Stark <[email protected]>
Cc: Chapman Flack <[email protected]>
Cc: Ashutosh Bapat <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: real/float example for testlibpq3
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2022 09:15:46 -0400
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Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]> writes:
> If we want to start documenting the binary format for all data types, it 
> should go into the "Data Types" chapter.  There, we already document the 
> text format in great detail, so putting the binary format in there as 
> well would make sense.

Agreed that the libpq manual is not the place for this, but I feel
like it will also be clutter in "Data Types".  Perhaps we should
invent a new appendix or the like?  Somewhere near the wire protocol
docs seems sensible.

			regards, tom lane





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