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.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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. > > > -- > Adrian Klaver > adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx > >