pg_tde_waldump

pg_tde_waldump displays a human-readable rendering of the Write-Ahead Log (WAL) for a PostgreSQL database cluster.

To read encrypted WAL records, pg_tde_waldump provides the following additional option:

• -k, --keyring-path=PATH is the path to the directory containing the WAL keyring configuration files. This is typically the pg_tde/ directory inside the PostgreSQL data directory. The following files are included:
  • wal_keys
  • 1664_providers

Note

pg_tde_waldump cannot read encrypted WAL unless --keyring-path is specified.