diff --git a/src/bin/pg_basebackup/pg_basebackup.c b/src/bin/pg_basebackup/pg_basebackup.c
index 46ab60d..1f81bbf 100644
--- a/src/bin/pg_basebackup/pg_basebackup.c
+++ b/src/bin/pg_basebackup/pg_basebackup.c
@@ -1199,7 +1199,6 @@ CreateBackupStreamer(char *archive_name, char *spclocation,
 			compressloc != COMPRESS_LOCATION_CLIENT)
 			streamer = bbstreamer_plain_writer_new(archive_filename,
 												   archive_file);
-#ifdef HAVE_LIBZ
 		else if (compressmethod == COMPRESSION_GZIP)
 		{
 			strlcat(archive_filename, ".gz", sizeof(archive_filename));
@@ -1207,7 +1206,6 @@ CreateBackupStreamer(char *archive_name, char *spclocation,
 												  archive_file,
 												  compresslevel);
 		}
-#endif
 		else
 		{
 			Assert(false);		/* not reachable */
@@ -1256,7 +1254,6 @@ CreateBackupStreamer(char *archive_name, char *spclocation,
 	else if (expect_unterminated_tarfile)
 		streamer = bbstreamer_tar_terminator_new(streamer);
 
-#ifdef HAVE_LIBZ
 	/*
 	 * If the user has requested a server compressed archive along with archive
 	 * extraction at client then we need to decompress it.
@@ -1264,7 +1261,6 @@ CreateBackupStreamer(char *archive_name, char *spclocation,
 	if (format == 'p' && compressmethod == COMPRESSION_GZIP &&
 			compressloc == COMPRESS_LOCATION_SERVER)
 		streamer = bbstreamer_gzip_decompressor_new(streamer);
-#endif
 
 	/* Return the results. */
 	*manifest_inject_streamer_p = manifest_inject_streamer;