Hi, Brandan, Brendan Duddridge wrote: > So how do you overlap the restore process with the retrieving of files? You need a shell script as restore command that does both uncompressing the current file, and starting a background decompress of the next file(s). It also has to check whether the current file is already in progress from a last run, and wait until this is finished instead of decompressing it. Seems to be a little complicated than it sounds first. > restore_command = 'gunzip </wal_archive/%f.gz>%p &' Warning: Don't do it this way! It will break things because PostgreSQL will try to access a not-completely-restored wal file. HTH, Markus -- Markus Schaber | Logical Tracking&Tracing International AG Dipl. Inf. | Software Development GIS Fight against software patents in EU! www.ffii.org www.nosoftwarepatents.org