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Re: real/float example for testlibpq3

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Mark Wong <markwkm@gmail.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>, Chapman Flack <chap@anastigmatix.net>, Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-11-01T13:15:46Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.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.

			regards, tom lane