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From: John R Pierce <pierce@hogranch.com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Raimon Fernandez <coder@montx.com>
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Implementing Frontend/Backend Protocol TCP/IP
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:17:53 -0700
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> I'm trying to implement the front-end protocol with TCP from
>> REALbasic to PostgreSQL.
>>     
>
> That sounds the most difficult way to do it.  Can't you just embed
> libpq?
>   

yah, seriously.   the binary protocol is not considered stable, it can 
change in subtle ways in each version.  libpq handles the current 
version and all previous versions, and exposes all methods.

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