Re: the wire protocol

сб, 19 янв. 2019 г. в 16:56, Catonano <catonano(at)gmail(dot)com>:
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> Hello,
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> there's this Python project using the so called wire protocol (as far as I understand)
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> https://github.com/MagicStack/asyncpg
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> I'm caressing the idea to create a GNU Guile based project that does the same thing
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> But I don't understand how they manage to get the connection to Postgresql, their code is too complicated for me
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> Do they use the C library, libpq ?
> Or do they manage the connection in their own code ?
AFAIK, asyncpg implements the frontend/backend protocol described here:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/protocol.html

> Should I use libpq ?
Not necessary.

> Or should I manage the connection in my own code ?
You can implement the protocol yourself in pure Guile. It's up to you to decide.

> In Guile I can manipulate sockets and the semantics are pretty close to the ones of plain C
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> So even an example in C would be fine
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> I'd like to use a Unix socket
To do it, first of all you need to familiarize with the
frontend/backend protocol mentioned above.