Re: Need for protocol description

From: Einar Karttunen <ekarttun(at)cs(dot)Helsinki(dot)FI>
To: Dinesh Parikh <dineshp(at)newgen(dot)co(dot)in>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Need for protocol description
Date: 2001-10-18 13:30:38
Message-ID: 20011018163038.A6131@cs.helsinki.fi
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On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 06:02:43PM +0530, Dinesh Parikh wrote:
> Hi All
> I want protocol descriptions of Postgresql 7.1 I mean how Postgres listens
> request at default port 5432. If one wants to write to execute some query
> using its program(like in C, java) directry by sending data at server socket
> 5432 then how this task can be achieved. Can anybody tell me from where i
> can find this.
>
This will be probably be a very bad idea... One should use the libraries.
The way I would go about this would be reading the source code of one of the
libraries. I think libpq source is quite clear and has lots of comments.

- Einar Karttunen

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