doc: document how the backup manifest is transferred

Reported-by: Bernd Helmle

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/31acf8b0f1f701d53245e0cae38abdf5c3a0d559.camel@oopsware.de

Backpatch-through: 13
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Bruce Momjian 2020-08-31 18:48:38 -04:00
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@ -2666,8 +2666,10 @@ The commands accepted in replication mode are:
<quote>ustar interchange format</quote> specified in the POSIX 1003.1-2008
standard) dump of the tablespace contents, except that the two trailing
blocks of zeroes specified in the standard are omitted.
After the tar data is complete, a final ordinary result set will be sent,
containing the WAL end position of the backup, in the same format as
After the tar data is complete, and if a backup manifest was requested,
another CopyResponse result is sent, containing the manifest data for the
current base backup. In any case, a final ordinary result set will be
sent, containing the WAL end position of the backup, in the same format as
the start position.
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