问题
As postgreSQL documentation says about it's packets here a function call must send a packet with 'F' identifier to server.
So I defined a simple function and called it with select statement and after monitoring my connection port using wireshark I see no 'F' identified packet, just multiple simple query packets ('Q' identified).
Am I missing something here?
回答1:
That is a misunderstanding.
A function that is called inside a SELECT statement is part of the statement text in a Query (identifier Q) or a Parse (identifier P) message.
The part of the documentation you are referring describes the message for the fast-path interface. This is a leftover from the time before the frontend-backend protocol had support for prepared statements and was used to execute a simple function call without the overhead of having to parse an SQL statement. It is mostly obsolete now, but still used in a few places like the large object API.
If you want to see F packets with Wireshark, you have to write C code and use the PQfn function.
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39469637/postgresql-function-call-packet