On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 16:15 Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 3:59 PM, Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> wrote: > > > For non-cold standby configurations, pg_ctl is going to return just as > > > soon as the database has finished crash recovery, which in most cases > > > will probably be on the order of a few seconds. > > > > /me is poleaxed. > -------- > Yeah, that was a confused sentence- most of the time it's going to return > on the order of a few seconds because we're doing regular startup without > having to do any crash recovery. > For actual crash recovery cases, it'll take between a few seconds and > checkpoint_timeout, as I described up-thread, based on the amount of > outstanding WAL. > Thanks! > Stephen