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Native epgsql plugin

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
erlang, postgresql
Domain
databases

Research direction

Start with doc/pluggable_types.md in epgsql and inspect the README's equery example and its payload format. Determine the scope of the native plugin and documentation changes; done means the example consistently uses native binary encoding and decoding.

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Description

Epgsql supports native binary data encoding/decoding. There is a document on how to implement one:
https://github.com/epgsql/epgsql/blob/devel/doc/pluggable_types.md

The way you document in your README is quite unnatural for epgsql because you use equery (which assumes native format), but then send/receive the payload in text format

Dominant language
Erlang
Stars
3
Forks
0
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No merged PRs in 30d

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