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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
commitfea2b70dd4deccb2c803d94493a164097b0af662 (patch)
tree4567fcb34aa1bf58492935e3069e58b2f3053917 /src
parent4b212b7c87754095d4f89b03a3aaec6e32d09342 (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 d65dd98a579..110726bd5f5 100644
--- a/src/backend/replication/walsender.c
+++ b/src/backend/replication/walsender.c
@@ -460,6 +460,10 @@ 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 */