Show HN: Understand Postgres wire protocol by writing a simple program

[vira28]

https://viggy28.dev/article/introduction-to-postgres-wire-protocol-in-go/

Link to the repo https://github.com/viggy28/pglite

[achanda358]

Looks good. Another way to look at the wire protocol is to hook postgres up to wireshark. There is a built-in postgres protocol parser.

[vira28 → achanda358]

Agree. Another good tool. https://github.com/dalibo/pgshark (though I couldn't get it running. Unable to resolve perl dependencies)