Re: real/float example for testlibpq3

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Mark Wong <markwkm(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Chapman Flack <chap(at)anastigmatix(dot)net>, Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh(dot)bapat(dot)oss(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: real/float example for testlibpq3
Date: 2022-11-03 13:23:00
Message-ID: 4f9ad8c2-b3b6-4d09-1e05-57b97ced926e@enterprisedb.com
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On 01.11.22 09:15, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
>> If we want to start documenting the binary format for all data types, it
>> should go into the "Data Types" chapter. There, we already document the
>> text format in great detail, so putting the binary format in there as
>> well would make sense.
>
> Agreed that the libpq manual is not the place for this, but I feel
> like it will also be clutter in "Data Types". Perhaps we should
> invent a new appendix or the like? Somewhere near the wire protocol
> docs seems sensible.

Would that clutter the protocol docs? ;-)

I suppose figuring out exactly where to put it and how to mark it up,
etc., in a repeatable fashion is part of the job here.

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