On Mon, 2024-06-10 at 13:41 -0500, Charles Schultz wrote: > On Wed, May 29, 2024 at 10:05 AM Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Did you compress the files? If yes, you have to uncompress them before feeding them > > to "pg_waldump". > > We do use compression (wal_compression="on"), which looks to default to pglz. > How might I decompress them? I tried gunzip in several iterations, but no dice. That will compress full-page images *within* the WAL segment, but not the file itself. The file should still have the regular size. Perhaps your archiver truncated the file somehow. Yours, Laurenz Albe