Re: [HACKERS] replication protocol documentation inconsistencies

2014-06-02 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Robert Haas wrote: > On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 6:51 PM, Andres Freund wrote: > > On 2014-05-21 07:29:53 -0400, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > >> More generally, it is weird that the message formats are described > >> there, even though the rest of the protocol documentation only mentions > >> the messag

Re: [HACKERS] replication protocol documentation inconsistencies

2014-06-02 Thread Robert Haas
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 6:51 PM, Andres Freund wrote: > On 2014-05-21 07:29:53 -0400, Peter Eisentraut wrote: >> Looking at >> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/protocol-replication.html >> under START_REPLICATION it goes >> >> """ >> The payload of each CopyData message from server to t

Re: [HACKERS] replication protocol documentation inconsistencies

2014-05-28 Thread Andres Freund
Hi, On 2014-05-21 07:29:53 -0400, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Looking at > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/protocol-replication.html > under START_REPLICATION it goes > > """ > The payload of each CopyData message from server to the client contains > a message of one of the following fo

[HACKERS] replication protocol documentation inconsistencies

2014-05-21 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Looking at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/protocol-replication.html under START_REPLICATION it goes """ The payload of each CopyData message from server to the client contains a message of one of the following formats: If a slot's name is provided via slotname, it will be updated as