diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/protocol.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/protocol.sgml
index 5e06c7523d..4a5c5f9458 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/protocol.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/protocol.sgml
@@ -1859,7 +1859,9 @@ The commands accepted in replication mode are:
      <para>
       Requests the server to send over the timeline history file for timeline
       <replaceable class="parameter">tli</replaceable>.  Server replies with a
-      result set of a single row, containing two fields:
+      result set of a single row, containing two fields.  While the fields
+      are labeled as <type>text</type>, they effectively return raw bytes,
+      with no encoding conversion:
      </para>
 
      <para>
@@ -1877,7 +1879,7 @@ The commands accepted in replication mode are:
 
       <varlistentry>
       <term>
-       <literal>content</literal> (<type>bytea</type>)
+       <literal>content</literal> (<type>text</type>)
       </term>
       <listitem>
       <para>
diff --git a/src/backend/replication/walsender.c b/src/backend/replication/walsender.c
index df27e84761..e6f1503f92 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 */