On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 10:42 PM, otheus uibk <otheus(dot)uibk(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> After a 3 to 4 minute delay, pg_basebackup started doing it's thing and
> finished within a few minutes. So now the question is: why the startup
> delay?
>
Sounds to me like it's doing a CHECKPOINT with spreading, which make it
take time. Try with "-c fast" and see if the problem goes away.
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