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Overview</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="protocol-overview.html#PROTOCOL-MESSAGE-CONCEPTS">55.1.1. Messaging Overview</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="protocol-overview.html#PROTOCOL-QUERY-CONCEPTS">55.1.2. Extended Query Overview</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="protocol-overview.html#PROTOCOL-FORMAT-CODES">55.1.3. Formats and Format Codes</a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="protocol-flow.html">55.2. Message Flow</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="protocol-flow.html#PROTOCOL-FLOW-START-UP">55.2.1. Start-up</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="protocol-flow.html#PROTOCOL-FLOW-SIMPLE-QUERY">55.2.2. Simple Query</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="protocol-flow.html#PROTOCOL-FLOW-EXT-QUERY">55.2.3. Extended Query</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="protocol-flow.html#PROTOCOL-FLOW-PIPELINING">55.2.4. Pipelining</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="protocol-flow.html#PROTOCOL-FLOW-FUNCTION-CALL">55.2.5. Function Call</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="protocol-flow.html#PROTOCOL-COPY">55.2.6. COPY Operations</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="protocol-flow.html#PROTOCOL-ASYNC">55.2.7. Asynchronous Operations</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="protocol-flow.html#PROTOCOL-FLOW-CANCELING-REQUESTS">55.2.8. Canceling Requests in Progress</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="protocol-flow.html#PROTOCOL-FLOW-TERMINATION">55.2.9. Termination</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="protocol-flow.html#PROTOCOL-FLOW-SSL">55.2.10. <acronym class="acronym">SSL</acronym> Session Encryption</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="protocol-flow.html#PROTOCOL-FLOW-GSSAPI">55.2.11. <acronym class="acronym">GSSAPI</acronym> Session Encryption</a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="sasl-authentication.html">55.3. SASL Authentication</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="sasl-authentication.html#SASL-SCRAM-SHA-256">55.3.1. SCRAM-SHA-256 Authentication</a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="protocol-replication.html">55.4. Streaming Replication Protocol</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="protocol-logical-replication.html">55.5. Logical Streaming Replication Protocol</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="protocol-logical-replication.html#PROTOCOL-LOGICAL-REPLICATION-PARAMS">55.5.1. Logical Streaming Replication Parameters</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="protocol-logical-replication.html#PROTOCOL-LOGICAL-MESSAGES">55.5.2. Logical Replication Protocol Messages</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="protocol-logical-replication.html#PROTOCOL-LOGICAL-MESSAGES-FLOW">55.5.3. Logical Replication Protocol Message Flow</a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="protocol-message-types.html">55.6. Message Data Types</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="protocol-message-formats.html">55.7. Message Formats</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="protocol-error-fields.html">55.8. Error and Notice Message Fields</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="protocol-logicalrep-message-formats.html">55.9. Logical Replication Message Formats</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="protocol-changes.html">55.10. Summary of Changes since Protocol 2.0</a></span></dt></dl></div><a id="id-1.10.6.2" class="indexterm"></a><p>3  <span class="productname">PostgreSQL</span> uses a message-based protocol4  for communication between frontends and backends (clients and servers).5  The protocol is supported over <acronym class="acronym">TCP/IP</acronym> and also over6  Unix-domain sockets.  Port number 5432 has been registered with IANA as7  the customary TCP port number for servers supporting this protocol, but8  in practice any non-privileged port number can be used.9 </p><p>10  This document describes version 3.0 of the protocol, implemented in11  <span class="productname">PostgreSQL</span> 7.4 and later.  For descriptions12  of the earlier protocol versions, see previous releases of the13  <span class="productname">PostgreSQL</span> documentation.  A single server14  can support multiple protocol versions.  The initial startup-request15  message tells the server which protocol version the client is attempting to16  use.  If the major version requested by the client is not supported by17  the server, the connection will be rejected (for example, this would occur18  if the client requested protocol version 4.0, which does not exist as of19  this writing).  If the minor version requested by the client is not20  supported by the server (e.g., the client requests version 3.1, but the21  server supports only 3.0), the server may either reject the connection or22  may respond with a NegotiateProtocolVersion message containing the highest23  minor protocol version which it supports.  The client may then choose either24  to continue with the connection using the specified protocol version or25  to abort the connection.26 </p><p>27   In order to serve multiple clients efficiently, the server launches28   a new <span class="quote">“<span class="quote">backend</span>”</span> process for each client.29   In the current implementation, a new child30   process is created immediately after an incoming connection is detected.31   This is transparent to the protocol, however.  For purposes of the32   protocol, the terms <span class="quote">“<span class="quote">backend</span>”</span> and <span class="quote">“<span class="quote">server</span>”</span> are33   interchangeable; likewise <span class="quote">“<span class="quote">frontend</span>”</span> and <span class="quote">“<span class="quote">client</span>”</span>34   are interchangeable.35  </p></div><div class="navfooter"><hr /><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="view-pg-views.html" title="54.35. pg_views">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="internals.html" title="Part VII. Internals">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="protocol-overview.html" title="55.1. Overview">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">54.35. <code class="structname">pg_views</code> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html" title="PostgreSQL 16.3 Documentation">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> 55.1. Overview</td></tr></table></div></body></html>