Re: Minor documentation error regarding streaming replication protocol

On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 04:23:06PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I have looked at this. It seems SendTimeLineHistory() is sending raw
> bytes from the history file, with no encoding conversion, and
> ReceiveXlogStream() is receiving it, again assuming it is just plain
> text. I am not sure we really have an SQL data type where we do this.
> BYTEA doesn't do encoding conversion, but does backslash procesing, and
> TEXT does encoding conversion.
>
> I suppose we either have to document this as BYTEA with no backslash
> processing, or TEXT with no encoding conversion --- I think I prefer the
> later.

As StartupXLOG() tells, The timeline history file can include as
reason the recovery target name which may not be made just of ASCII
characters as that's the value specified in pg_create_restore_point by
the user, so bytea is correct, no?
--
Michael