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Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 08:36:41 -0600
From: Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>
To: Krisztian Szabo <tensor_hu@yahoo.com>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: new interface prog
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On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 05:30:02AM -0700, Krisztian Szabo wrote:
> I would like to write my own interface  to postgres
> that communicates via the database socket.
> 
> I found PgPP.pm perl module a very handy tool to
> extract the interface protocol from  the source code,
> but nevertheless it will safe a great deal of time if
> there exits a protocol description that help me write
> the program.
> Can anyone help me find the protocol description?

See the "Frontend/Backend Protocol" chapter in the documentation.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/protocol.html

-- 
Michael Fuhr