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| author | Jörg Mayer <jmayer@loplof.de> | 2004-03-02 01:39:35 +0000 |
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| committer | Jörg Mayer <jmayer@loplof.de> | 2004-03-02 01:39:35 +0000 |
| commit | 40c641cc32de6e22ce87c019ef8dd91ffd241d5e (patch) | |
| tree | 5be27653122f7f38aafdfe4a9e8d219597995d1c | |
| parent | 4a6e73c84adbf4900f395e02cff8d6e34f6d24d1 (diff) | |
Add a comment about PDU types
svn path=/trunk/; revision=10274
| -rw-r--r-- | packet-postgresql.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/packet-postgresql.c b/packet-postgresql.c index b3af5f3062..86ee8184f2 100644 --- a/packet-postgresql.c +++ b/packet-postgresql.c @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ * * Copyright 2004, Edwin Calo <calo@fusemail.com> * - * $Id: packet-postgresql.c,v 1.6 2004/02/19 08:56:50 guy Exp $ + * $Id: packet-postgresql.c,v 1.7 2004/03/02 01:39:35 jmayer Exp $ * * Ethereal - Network traffic analyzer * By Gerald Combs <gerald@ethereal.com> @@ -60,6 +60,15 @@ static gint ett_postgresql = -1; * http://www.postgresql.org/docs/6.3/interactive/c50.htm * * for version 1.0 of the protocol. + * + * It looks like there are two types of PDUs: Old style and new style. + * New style PDUs start with a Length guint32, where the high byte is + * equal to 0. Old style PDUs start with a single Byte (different from 0) + * that contains the type of the PDU. + * + * The specific types can be found at: + * http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/interactive/protocol-message-formats.html + * */ static void |