Doc patch for Logical Replication Message Formats (PG14)

Brar Piening <brar@gmx.de>

From: Brar Piening <brar@gmx.de>
To: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2021-06-21T06:56:13Z
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Hello Hackers,
while amending Npgsql to account for the Logical Streaming Replication
Protocol changes in PostgreSQL 14 I stumbled upon two documentation
inaccuracies in the Logical Replication Message Formats documentation
(https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/protocol-logicalrep-message-formats.html)
that have been introduced (or rather omitted) with the recent changes to
allow pgoutput to send logical decoding messages
(https://github.com/postgres/postgres/commit/ac4645c0157fc5fcef0af8ff571512aa284a2cec)
and to allow logical replication to transfer data in binary format
(https://github.com/postgres/postgres/commit/9de77b5453130242654ff0b30a551c9c862ed661).


 1. The content of the logical decoding message in the 'Message' message
    is prefixed with a length field (Int32) which isn't documented yet.
    See
    https://github.com/postgres/postgres/blob/69a58bfe4ab05567a8fab8bdce7f3095ed06b99c/src/backend/replication/logical/proto.c#L388
 2. The TupleData may now contain the byte 'b' as indicator for binary
    data which isn't documented yet. See
    https://github.com/postgres/postgres/blob/69a58bfe4ab05567a8fab8bdce7f3095ed06b99c/src/include/replication/logicalproto.h#L83
    and
    https://github.com/postgres/postgres/blob/69a58bfe4ab05567a8fab8bdce7f3095ed06b99c/src/backend/replication/logical/proto.c#L558.

The attached documentation patch fixes both.

Best regards,

Brar

Commits

  1. Doc: Update logical replication message formats.

  2. doc: adjust PG 14 relnotes to be current

  3. Allow pgoutput to send logical decoding messages.

  4. Allow logical replication to transfer data in binary format.