Conventions

§1.3.1 Normative keywords #

The key words MUST, MUST NOT, SHOULD, SHOULD NOT, and MAY in this specification are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.

§1.3.2 Section references #

Section references within this specification use the § addressing scheme defined in PSD-001. References to other PSDs use the PSD-NNN §x.y.z(n) citation format.

§1.3.3 Byte order #

All multi-byte integers in wire formats and storage formats defined by this specification are little-endian, consistent with PSD-003.

§1.3.4 String encoding #

All strings in wire formats and storage formats defined by this specification are UTF-8 encoded.

§1.3.5 Payload encoding #

Structured data in the query interface and internal storage formats uses MessagePack (msgpack) as defined by the MessagePack specification, consistent with PSD-003.