Re: How to recover from compressed wal archieve in windows

Hi Andrus, hi Adrian,

see:

25.3.6.2. Compressed Archive Logs
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/continuous-archiving.html#BACKUP-TIPS

Hope this helps in dealing with compressed WAL files.

Cheers,
Paul

> On 20. May, 2020, at 20:36, Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On 5/20/20 8:08 AM, Andrus wrote:
>> In windows 10
>> pg_receivewal --directory="d:\wallog" --verbose --compress=9
>> is used to archieve WAL.
>> This creates .gz files
>> For restore
>> restore_command='copy "D:\\wallog\\%f" "%p"'
>
> I'm guessing:
>
> restore_command='copy "D:\\wallog\\%f.gz" "%p"'
>
> will get you the file.
>
> The next problem is that I'm pretty sure a WAL file with *.gz extension will not be able to be processed directly by the server. So you are going to have to uncompress it at some point before it gets restored.
>
>
>> is used.
>> Restore shows "file not found" errors in console. Thi sis probably because %f argument is WAL file name without extension.
>> How to use compressed WAL files for WAL archieve and restore in windows ?
>> Andrus.
>
>
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