On Monday, January 18, 2021, Ankush Chawla <ankushchawla03(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Preparing hot standby in PostgreSQL 12
>
> I have created a standby.signal file and added the parameter
> hot_standby='on' in postgresql.conf file but i am still not able to query
> the standby database
> Database is not getting open for reading.
>
> postgres(at)ip-172-31-31-150:/u01/db10/pg_wal> psql -p 5490
> psql: error: FATAL: the database system is starting up
>
>
The database is starting up, this is expected. You need to consult the
server logs for relevant information pertaining to the startup/restore
process.
David J.