Re: Clarification suggestion for 46.4 chapter. - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Clarification suggestion for 46.4 chapter.
Date
Msg-id 20120817020735.GQ30286@momjian.us
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In response to Clarification suggestion for 46.4 chapter.  (Dmitriy Igrishin <dmitigr@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Clarification suggestion for 46.4 chapter.  (Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>)
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On Mon, Dec  5, 2011 at 02:53:22PM +0300, Dmitriy Igrishin wrote:
> Hey,
>
> The section 46.4 describes the base data types used in messages.
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/protocol-message-types.html
>
> According to section 46.5
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/protocol-message-formats.html
> there are cases when Int32 can be negative (e.g. see DataRow(B) message
> description.)
>
> Thus, I would like to suggest to change the description of Int(i)
> from
> "An n-bit integer in network byte order ..."
> to
> "An n-bit signed integer in network byte order ..."

OK, documentation updated.

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