Re: Extensibility of the PostgreSQL wire protocol

Hi Jonah,

On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 10:18 AM Jonah H. Harris <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 10:07 AM Jan Wieck <jan(at)wi3ck(dot)info> wrote:
>
>> The following is a request for discussion and comments, not a refined
>> proposal accompanied by a working patch.
>>
>
> After implementing this three different ways inside the backend over the
> years, I landed on almost this identical approach for handling the MySQL,
> TDS, MongoDB, and Oracle protocols for NEXTGRES.
>

Could any of that be open sourced? It would be an excellent addition to add
one of those as example code.

Regards, Jan

>
> Initially, each was implemented as an background worker extension which
> had to handle its own networking, passing the fd off to new
> protocol-specific connections, etc. This worked, but duplicate a good
> amount of logic. It would be great to have a standard, loadable, way to add
> support for a new protocol.
>
> --
> Jonah H. Harris
>
>

--
Jan Wieck