Re: Minor documentation error regarding streaming replication protocol

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Brar Piening <brar(at)gmx(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Subject: Re: Minor documentation error regarding streaming replication protocol
Date: 2020-12-15 22:28:09
Message-ID: 20201215222809.GB14807@momjian.us
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On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 01:22:44AM -0800, Jeff Davis wrote:
> On Thu, 2020-12-03 at 13:14 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Andres objected (in a separate conversation) to forcing a binary-
> > > format
> > > value on a client that didn't ask for one. He suggested that we
> > > mandate
> > > that the data is ASCII-only (for both filename and content),
> > > closing
> > > the gap Michael raised[1]; and then just declare all values to be
> > > text
> > > format.
> >
> > How do we mandate that? Just mention it in the docs and C comments?
>
> Attached a simple patch that enforces an all-ASCII restore point name
> rather than documenting the possibility of non-ASCII text.

Oh, nice idea, sure. Would you like to apply it? Master only or
backpatch?

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