Re: Implementing Frontend/Backend Protocol TCP/IP - Mailing list pgsql-general

Raimon Fernandez wrote:

> After the S I found thre char(0) and later the size of the packet,
> and later the name + char(0) (separator between value and
> parameter), the parameter, and so on.
>
> Why I found those three char(0) after the S and before the packet
> length?

Because the length is an int32.  There are 3 zeros because the packet
length is less than 256.

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