Re: Warm standby system - FATAL: the database system is starting up

Hi Artis,

I'm using debian. We discovered another postgres on the network was
trying to connect.

What about the "postgres: startup process" ? Should this always be
visibile on a system reading WALs? Nobody has answered that yet.

Glyn
--- Artis Caune <Artis(dot)Caune(at)latnet(dot)lv> wrote:

> Glyn Astill wrote:
> > FATAL: the database system is starting up
> > FATAL: the database system is starting up
> > FATAL: the database system is starting up
> >
> >
> > As far as I know theres nothing else trying to connect.
>
>
> I think you are using FreeBSD, and default pg_ctl flags in rc.d
> contains
> "-w" option, which wait for start/stop to complete. It check this
> by
> connecting to postmaster.
>
> change postgresql_flags in /etc/rc.conf to:
> postgresql_flags="-s -m fast"
> or
> postgresql_flags="-s -m smart"
>
>
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> TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
>

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