Hi,
protocol.sgml describes the protocol messages received by a BASE_BACKUP
streaming command, but doesn't tell anything about the additional
CopyResponse data message containing the contents of the backup
manifest (if requested) after having received the tar files. So i
propose the attached to give a little more detail in this paragraph.
Thanks, Bernd
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/protocol.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/protocol.sgml
index 8b00235a516..31918144b37 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/protocol.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/protocol.sgml
@@ -2665,8 +2665,10 @@ The commands accepted in replication mode are:
<quote>ustar interchange format</quote> specified in the POSIX 1003.1-2008
standard) dump of the tablespace contents, except that the two trailing
blocks of zeroes specified in the standard are omitted.
- After the tar data is complete, a final ordinary result set will be sent,
- containing the WAL end position of the backup, in the same format as
+ After the tar data is complete, and if a backup manifest was requested,
+ another CopyResponse result is sent, containing the manifest data for the
+ current base backup. In any case, a final ordinary result set will be
+ sent, containing the WAL end position of the backup, in the same format as
the start position.
</para>
