Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 12:44:52 +0100
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org, pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] First draft of new FE/BE protocol spec posted for
	comments
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On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 07:08:30PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> I have committed a first-draft revision of the FE/BE protocol document;
> you can read it at
> http://candle.pha.pa.us/main/writings/pgsql/sgml/protocol.html
> or in a few hours at
> http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/protocol.html
> I'd appreciate it if people would look it over for both presentation
> and content.

Just showing my ignorance: I read 46.2.3 Extended Query, and wondered "What
is a portal?" (portal == cursor?)
also noted that SQL EXECUTE (prepared statement) != Execute (portal)

and in 46.3. Message Data Types, reading "There is no predefined limit on
the length of a string that can be returned by the backend." one might say
Oh no! but of course you know what it's maximum size is by then, as you know
the length of the response which contains the string..

Cheers,

Patrick