[wofo]

Thanks for mentioning Postgres! I am actually pretty curious about the difference between MySQL and Postgres when it comes to their docs about the protocol. My superficial impression is that the Postgres docs are more thorough, leaving less room for ambiguity (some pages of the MySQL docs seem sloppy in comparison, e.g. those documenting the text encoding of values). I would be interested to read an analysis of the development culture of both projects, based on their docs.