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
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