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doc: wire protocol data type for history file content is bytea

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Document that though the history file content is marked as bytea, it is
the same a text, and neither is btyea-escaped or encoding converted.

Reported-by: Brar Piening

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6a1b9cd9-17e3-df67-be55-86102af6bdf5@gmx.de

Backpatch-through: 13 - 9.5 (not master)
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Bruce Momjian
2020-11-12 14:33:28 -05:00
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@ -1789,7 +1789,10 @@ The commands accepted in replication mode are:
<para>
Requests the server to send over the timeline history file for timeline
<replaceable class="parameter">tli</replaceable>. Server replies with a
result set of a single row, containing two fields:
result set of a single row, containing two fields. While the
fields are labeled as <type>text</type> and <type>bytea</type>,
they effectively return raw bytes, with no escaping or encoding
conversion:
</para>
<para>