diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/protocol.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/protocol.sgml
index f5e3318106..3cc30a480b 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/protocol.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/protocol.sgml
@@ -1877,11 +1877,11 @@ The commands accepted in replication mode are:
 
       <varlistentry>
       <term>
-       <literal>content</literal> (<type>bytea</type>)
+       <literal>content</literal> (<type>text</type>)
       </term>
       <listitem>
       <para>
-       Contents of the timeline history file.
+       Contents of the timeline history file;  no encoding conversion is performed.
       </para>
       </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
diff --git a/src/backend/replication/walsender.c b/src/backend/replication/walsender.c
index 7c9d1b67df..7db8975065 100644
--- a/src/backend/replication/walsender.c
+++ b/src/backend/replication/walsender.c
@@ -496,7 +496,7 @@ SendTimeLineHistory(TimeLineHistoryCmd *cmd)
 	pq_sendstring(&buf, "content"); /* col name */
 	pq_sendint32(&buf, 0);		/* table oid */
 	pq_sendint16(&buf, 0);		/* attnum */
-	pq_sendint32(&buf, BYTEAOID);	/* type oid */
+	pq_sendint32(&buf, TEXTOID);	/* type oid */
 	pq_sendint16(&buf, -1);		/* typlen */
 	pq_sendint32(&buf, 0);		/* typmod */
 	pq_sendint16(&buf, 0);		/* format code */