Fix backfill replication to advance the stream correctly

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/synapse/replication/resource.py b/synapse/replication/resource.py

index e5c9a53929..149fc4c650 100644
--- a/synapse/replication/resource.py
+++ b/synapse/replication/resource.py
@@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ class _Writer(object):
             position = rows[-1][0]
 
         self.streams[name] = {
-            "position": str(position),
+            "position": position if type(position) is int else str(position),
             "field_names": fields,
             "rows": rows,
         }