diff --git a/libs/pq_proto/src/lib.rs b/libs/pq_proto/src/lib.rs
index 9ffaaba584..20b9ea18b1 100644
--- a/libs/pq_proto/src/lib.rs
+++ b/libs/pq_proto/src/lib.rs
@@ -562,6 +562,9 @@ pub enum BeMessage<'a> {
         options: &'a [&'a str],
     },
     KeepAlive(WalSndKeepAlive),
+    /// Batch of interpreted, shard filtered WAL records,
+    /// ready for the pageserver to ingest
+    InterpretedWalRecords(InterpretedWalRecordsBody<'a>),
 }
 
 /// Common shorthands.
@@ -672,6 +675,18 @@ pub struct WalSndKeepAlive {
     pub request_reply: bool,
 }
 
+#[derive(Debug)]
+pub struct InterpretedWalRecordsBody<'a> {
+    /// End of raw WAL in [`Self::data`]
+    pub streaming_lsn: u64,
+    /// Current end of WAL on the server
+    pub safekeeper_wal_end_lsn: u64,
+    /// Start LSN of the next record in PG WAL.
+    /// Is 0 if the portion of PG WAL did not contain any records.
+    pub next_record_lsn: u64,
+    pub data: &'a [u8],
+}
+
 pub static HELLO_WORLD_ROW: BeMessage = BeMessage::DataRow(&[Some(b"hello world")]);
 
 // single text column
@@ -996,6 +1011,18 @@ impl BeMessage<'_> {
                     Ok(())
                 })?
             }
+
+            BeMessage::InterpretedWalRecords(rec) => {
+                buf.put_u8(b'd'); // arbitrary byte
+                write_body(buf, |buf| {
+                    buf.put_u8(b'0'); // matches INTERPRETED_WAL_RECORD_TAG in postgres-protocol
+                                      // dependency
+                    buf.put_u64(rec.streaming_lsn);
+                    buf.put_u64(rec.safekeeper_wal_end_lsn);
+                    buf.put_u64(rec.next_record_lsn);
+                    buf.put_slice(rec.data);
+                });
+            }
         }
         Ok(())
     }