I kept hearing about the term wire protocol especially Postgres wire protocol in the recent days (Looking at you cockroachdb, yugabytedb - in a good way) but never really quite understood it. Decided to implement something simple in Go to understand it better. As always, if you find anything wrong or I misunderstood please correct me.
In simple terms,
“wire” - something over network generally (but PG also supports over domain sockets)
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