Re: Confused about stream replication protocol documentation

On 2020/12/23 11:08, Li Japin wrote:
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>> On Dec 22, 2020, at 11:13 PM, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)oss(dot)nttdata(dot)com <mailto:masao(dot)fujii(at)oss(dot)nttdata(dot)com>> wrote:
>>
>> ‘B’ means a backend and ‘F’ means a frontend. Maybe as [1] does, we should
>> add the note like "Each is marked to indicate that it can be sent by
>> a frontend (F) and a backend (B)" into the description about each message
>> format for START_REPLICATION.
>>
>> [1]
>> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/protocol-message-formats.html <https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/protocol-message-formats.html>
>
> Thanks for your clarify.  Maybe we should move the "protocol message formats”
> before “stream replication protocol” or referenced it in "stream replication protocol”.

I like the latter. And maybe it's better to reference to also
"53.6. Message Data Types" there because the messages for
START_REPLICATION use the message data types.

Regards,

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Fujii Masao
Advanced Computing Technology Center
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NTT DATA CORPORATION