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GSSENCRequest

GSSENCRequest is a frontend protocol message. Length of message contents in bytes, including self.

Reading PostgreSQL 18.6.

Description

GSSENCRequest is a frontend protocol message. Length of message contents in bytes, including self.

Direction: Frontend → backend
First wire field: Int32(8)
Field entries: 2
Documented flow contexts: SSL Session Encryption; GSSAPI Session Encryption

Usage

GSSENCRequest (F)

Framing and repetition

The complete definition below retains repetition, counts and conditional fields. A numbered table row is a documented field definition, not a fixed byte offset. Integer encodings and flow rules follow the same-version protocol chapter.

Wire fields in documented order

Position	Format	Meaning
1	Int32(8)	Length of message contents in bytes, including self.
2	Int32(80877104)	The GSSAPI Encryption request code. The value is chosen to contain 1234 in the most significant 16 bits, and 5680 in the least significant 16 bits. (To avoid confusion, this code must not be the same as any protocol version number.)

Manual definition

Int32(8): Length of message contents in bytes, including self.
Int32(80877104): The GSSAPI Encryption request code. The value is chosen to contain 1234 in the most significant 16 bits, and 5680 in the least significant 16 bits. (To avoid confusion, this code must not be the same as any protocol version number.)

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Documentation and source

PostgreSQL 18 English manual

Source build

Version: 18.6
Build: https://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/source/v18.6/postgresql-18.6.tar.bz2
Source fingerprint: 555610c24d53e4316da5b7d3fc25c279d96856d5e0e23ee308c328c5fa881d9f

Compare versions

PostgreSQL 11 → 12: added.

--- PostgreSQL 11
+++ PostgreSQL 12
@@ -1 +1,13 @@
-Not recorded in this version
+{
+  "direction": "F",
+  "fields": [
+    {
+      "description": "Length of message contents in bytes, including self.",
+      "format": "Int32(8)"
+    },
+    {
+      "description": "The GSSAPI Encryption request code. The value is chosen to contain 1234 in the most significant 16 bits, and 5680 in the least significant 16 bits. (To avoid confusion, this code must not be the same as any protocol version number.)",
+      "format": "Int32(80877104)"
+    }
+  ]
+}

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