Guys, I am in the middle of implementing postgresql's client server protocol and I have run into a little issue. The spec says that in general data can be of two types, 'text' and 'binary'. The text one is generally pretty simple to figure out. However, there doesn't seem to be any area of the docs that details format for 'binary' data. For example, how do you serialize a float? How about an decimal type?, etc. I hope my question is clear and I look forward to your responses. Thanks, Eric -- I'm a programmer, I don't have to spell correctly; I just have to spell consistently ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend