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From: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[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: Thu, 3 Nov 2022 09:23:00 -0400
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On 01.11.22 09:15, Tom Lane wrote:
> 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.

Would that clutter the protocol docs? ;-)

I suppose figuring out exactly where to put it and how to mark it up, 
etc., in a repeatable fashion is part of the job here.

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