How do the database drivers communicate with the database? Is it just through some type of protocol at a certain port?

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    • I have made a PostgreSQL server implementation in Go. This might help a bit as well in understanding how a client interacts with a PostgreSQL server: https://github.com/jeroenrinzema/psql-wire

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