Re: pg_standby and compressed archive - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Vibhor Kumar
Subject Re: pg_standby and compressed archive
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Msg-id B580E4CE-E9CA-4625-9B29-5EB5006B91D8@gmail.com
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In response to pg_standby and compressed archive  (Joby Joba <jobyjoba59@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-admin
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
towork 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

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