doc: document how the backup manifest is transferred

bmomjian · bmomjian · commit ab3c6d415524 · 2020-08-31T18:48:38.000-04:00
Reported-by: Bernd Helmle Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/31acf8b0f1f701d53245e0cae38abdf5c3a0d559.camel@oopsware.de Backpatch-through: 13
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/protocol.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/protocol.sgml
@@ -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.
      </para>
 
