Re: Request for comment on setting binary format output per session

On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 11:51 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> > One thing I think we should do in this area is introduce #defines for
> > all the message type codes and use those instead of having hard-coded
> > constants everywhere.
>
> +1, but I wonder where we should put those exactly.  My first thought
> was postgres_ext.h, but the charter for that is
>
>  *     This file contains declarations of things that are visible everywhere
>  *  in PostgreSQL *and* are visible to clients of frontend interface libraries.
>  *  For example, the Oid type is part of the API of libpq and other libraries.
>
> so picayune details of the wire protocol probably don't belong there.
> Maybe we need a new header concerned with the wire protocol?

Yeah. I sort of thought maybe one of the files in src/include/libpq
would be the right place, but it doesn't look like it.

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