pg_waldump

pg_waldump is a tool to display a human-readable rendering of the Write-Ahead Log (WAL) of a PostgreSQL database cluster.

To read encrypted WAL records, pg_waldump supports the following additional arguments:

• keyring_path is the directory where the keyring configuration files for WAL are stored. The following files are included:
  • 1664_keys
  • 1664_providers

Note

pg_waldump does not decrypt WAL unless the keyring_path is set.