On Feb 4, 2011, at 11:30 PM, Joby Joba wrote: > in order to reduce disk space used by postgresql's archived logs I use the following command for the parameter archive_command : > archive_command = 'gzip -c %p >/u10/pgmi/postgresql/archive/%f.gz' > I have configured a standby database with the contrib module and pg_stanby. My question is : how to tell pg_standby to work with compressed archive ? First of all, is it possible ? > No. > The command which work when archive aren't compressed is like this : > recovery_command = 'pg_standby -t /tmp/trigger_standby /u10/pgmi/postgres_standby/archive %f %p %r 2> pg_standby.log' You have to uncompress the wal files first. Thanks & Regards, Vibhor -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin