# Postgres

> Tag 6: the server announces a database connection the container opened, under a connection id it minted; the client answers with everything the database says, which the server relays into the container’s socket, and its channel response finish closes the socket.

Canonical: https://provider.diverge.network/2.3.0/endpoints/containers-agents-run/server/postgres/
Specification revision: 2.3.0

The server opens this channel when the container's proxy announces a
database connection on `/requests`. It is the server's half of the
connection; the client's half is a [postgres](/2.3.0/endpoints/containers-agents-run/client/postgres/)
channel the client opens, quoting the same id.

- **The request.** The tag byte `6` followed by a connection id, four
  bytes, that the server minted.
  [Request](/2.3.0/endpoints/containers-agents-run/server/postgres/request/) states its form.
- **The response.** What the database says, as channel responses,
  and the channel response finish, which closes the container's
  socket. [Response](/2.3.0/endpoints/containers-agents-run/server/postgres/response/) states the
  sequence.
- **The id.** The server chooses the id and keeps it unique among the
  connections open on the scope. It may reuse an id after both
  halves of its connection have finished.
- **What the server holds.** From the moment it opens this channel,
  the server holds every byte the container's driver writes until
  the client opens its half, and sends them on that half first, in
  order.
- **The conduit.** The server relays each channel response into the
  container's socket verbatim and in order, and does not read it.