* Michael Paquier (michael.paqu...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 6:20 AM, Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> wrote: > > 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. > > Recovering up to the minumum recovery point could take minutes!
Right, in an actual crash recovery case, it'll take longer, up to checkpoint_timeout. I am certainly hopeful that, most of the time, we're actually starting up from a cleanly shut down system. Thanks! Stephen
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