Stuart,
FE/BE = Frontend/Backend protocol. It is the over the wire protocol
Postgres uses to talk to clients (jdbc, odbc, libpq, etc.).
It is documented in the Developers Guide, there is a chapter titled
"Frontend/Backend Protocol".
thanks,
--Barry
Stuart Robinson wrote:
> What is the FE/BE protocol? (I did a Google search and found references to
> it, but no definitions or explanations.) Thanks. (And apologies if this is
> a stupid RTFM sort of question.)
>
> -Stuart
>
> On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Barry Lind wrote:
>
>
>>Is this behavior intended in the backend? The problem is that when you
>>create a rule on an object that calls a stored function and invoke that
>>rule on an insert/update/delete statement your insert/update/delete
>>statement will now return a query result to the front end over the FE/BE
>>protocol. (I am not sure this is the exact senerio, but something
>>similar). This means that the user now needs to perform a
>>executeQuery() call when using these insert/update/delete statements in
>>JDBC because the JDBC driver isn't able to accept a query response when
>>issuing a insert/update/delete call.
>>
>>thanks,
>>--Barry
>>
>