On Tue, 15 Jul 2025 at 12:08, Japin Li <japi...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > IIRC, the standby will indefinitely attempt to connect for replication, > even > without restore_command configured. >
That's correct. However right now it just results in an attempt to open the WAL segment in pg_wal and failing, what is cheap. Calling restore_command is more expensive and therefore the impact on resource usage will be bigger. Regards, -- Alexander Kukushkin