Re: real/float example for testlibpq3

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>

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

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: 2022-11-03T13:23:00Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On 01.11.22 09:15, Tom Lane wrote:
> 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.

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.