From fe904ac20bd042edf05cc450541cdcd811d4137d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruce Momjian Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 14:33:28 -0500 Subject: 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) --- doc/src/sgml/protocol.sgml | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'doc/src') diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/protocol.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/protocol.sgml index 3177abcd918..67a00493606 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/protocol.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/protocol.sgml @@ -1623,7 +1623,10 @@ The commands accepted in walsender mode are: Requests the server to send over the timeline history file for timeline tli. 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 text and bytea, + they effectively return raw bytes, with no escaping or encoding + conversion: -- cgit v1.2.3