The commands accepted in walsender mode are:
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
- <term>IDENTIFY_SYSTEM</term>
+ <term>IDENTIFY_SYSTEM
+ <indexterm><primary>IDENTIFY_SYSTEM</primary></indexterm>
+ </term>
<listitem>
<para>
Requests the server to identify itself. Server replies with a result
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term>TIMELINE_HISTORY <replaceable class="parameter">tli</replaceable></term>
+ <term>TIMELINE_HISTORY <replaceable class="parameter">tli</replaceable>
+ <indexterm><primary>TIMELINE_HISTORY</primary></indexterm>
+ </term>
<listitem>
<para>
Requests the server to send over the timeline history file for timeline
</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- Filename of the timeline history file, e.g 00000002.history.
+ Filename of the timeline history file, e.g <filename>00000002.history</>.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term>CREATE_REPLICATION_SLOT <replaceable class="parameter">slot_name</> { <literal>PHYSICAL</> | <literal>LOGICAL</> <replaceable class="parameter">output_plugin</> } <indexterm><primary>CREATE_REPLICATION_SLOT</primary></indexterm></term>
+ <term>CREATE_REPLICATION_SLOT <replaceable class="parameter">slot_name</> { <literal>PHYSICAL</> | <literal>LOGICAL</> <replaceable class="parameter">output_plugin</> }
+ <indexterm><primary>CREATE_REPLICATION_SLOT</primary></indexterm>
+ </term>
<listitem>
<para>
Create a physical or logical replication
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term>START_REPLICATION [<literal>SLOT</literal> <replaceable class="parameter">slot_name</>] [<literal>PHYSICAL</literal>] <replaceable class="parameter">XXX/XXX</> [<literal>TIMELINE</literal> <replaceable class="parameter">tli</>]</term>
+ <term>START_REPLICATION [<literal>SLOT</literal> <replaceable class="parameter">slot_name</>] [<literal>PHYSICAL</literal>] <replaceable class="parameter">XXX/XXX</> [<literal>TIMELINE</literal> <replaceable class="parameter">tli</>]
+ <indexterm><primary>START_REPLICATION</primary></indexterm>
+ </term>
<listitem>
<para>
Instructs server to start streaming WAL, starting at
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term>DROP_REPLICATION_SLOT <replaceable class="parameter">slot_name</></term>
+ <term>DROP_REPLICATION_SLOT <replaceable class="parameter">slot_name</>
+ <indexterm><primary>DROP_REPLICATION_SLOT</primary></indexterm>
+ </term>
<listitem>
<para>
Drops a replication slot, freeing any reserved server-side resources. If
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term>BASE_BACKUP [<literal>LABEL</literal> <replaceable>'label'</replaceable>] [<literal>PROGRESS</literal>] [<literal>FAST</literal>] [<literal>WAL</literal>] [<literal>NOWAIT</literal>] [<literal>MAX_RATE</literal> <replaceable>rate</replaceable>]</term>
+ <term>BASE_BACKUP [<literal>LABEL</literal> <replaceable>'label'</replaceable>] [<literal>PROGRESS</literal>] [<literal>FAST</literal>] [<literal>WAL</literal>] [<literal>NOWAIT</literal>] [<literal>MAX_RATE</literal> <replaceable>rate</replaceable>]
+ <indexterm><primary>BASE_BACKUP</primary></indexterm>
+ </term>
<listitem>
<para>
Instructs the server to start streaming a base backup.