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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
commit86913ba9abaf2a56ea19b61ccbcf9d35e894d5d0 (patch)
tree1ebcb5f9de219fbadff5541547f12d557b6ead6a /src
parent245a35f96e3a12b7fe19bad88671d75dcbec133c (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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-rw-r--r--src/backend/replication/walsender.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/replication/walsender.c b/src/backend/replication/walsender.c
index d31e996a065..f82932ffa28 100644
--- a/src/backend/replication/walsender.c
+++ b/src/backend/replication/walsender.c
@@ -462,6 +462,10 @@ SendTimeLineHistory(TimeLineHistoryCmd *cmd)
pq_sendstring(&buf, "content"); /* col name */
pq_sendint(&buf, 0, 4); /* table oid */
pq_sendint(&buf, 0, 2); /* attnum */
+ /*
+ * While this is labeled as BYTEAOID, it is the same output format
+ * as TEXTOID above.
+ */
pq_sendint(&buf, BYTEAOID, 4); /* type oid */
pq_sendint(&buf, -1, 2); /* typlen */
pq_sendint(&buf, 0, 4); /* typmod */