PostgreSQL v3 Frontend/Backend Protocol (pgsql)
PostgreSQL versions 7.4 and above use this protocol for communications between the frontend (clients) and the backend (servers).
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Protocol dependencies
- PostgreSQL uses TCP port 5432 by default.
Example traffic
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Wireshark
- Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote a complete v3 dissector: http://www.oryx.com/ams/packet-pgsql.c ; this dissector has been checked into Wireshark. You can see the current source here.
Example capture files
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External links
Discussion
This page was made in haste, and is thus incomplete. I intend to fill it in later. -- AMS, 20041220
Imported from https://wiki.wireshark.org/PostgresProtocol on 2020-08-11 23:18:15 UTC