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authorBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2020-11-12 14:33:28 -0500
committerBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2020-11-12 14:33:28 -0500
commitd7fa90fae104a81cc5a1a76a9607afcd3d0ad070 (patch)
tree310f07f4c47ba36e77eee5a33a2c77c3ce6401ab /doc/src
parent7f69ed4aebe342365dc7db96f33b473dec9f054b (diff)
doc: wire protocol data type for history file content is bytea
Document that though the history file content is marked as bytea, it is the same a text, and neither is btyea-escaped or encoding converted. Reported-by: Brar Piening Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6a1b9cd9-17e3-df67-be55-86102af6bdf5@gmx.de Backpatch-through: 13 - 9.5 (not master)
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/protocol.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/protocol.sgml
index 3cab4a83805..ebfde41ecf1 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/protocol.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/protocol.sgml
@@ -1858,7 +1858,10 @@ The commands accepted in replication mode are:
<para>
Requests the server to send over the timeline history file for timeline
<replaceable class="parameter">tli</replaceable>. Server replies with a
- result set of a single row, containing two fields:
+ result set of a single row, containing two fields. While the
+ fields are labeled as <type>text</type> and <type>bytea</type>,
+ they effectively return raw bytes, with no escaping or encoding
+ conversion:
</para>
<para>