Re: Re: Clarifying "server starting" messaging in pg_ctl start without --wait

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Beena Emerson <memissemerson(at)gmail(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Ryan Murphy <ryanfmurphy(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Re: Clarifying "server starting" messaging in pg_ctl start without --wait
Date: 2017-01-18 21:20:11
Message-ID: CAOuzzgozL-CWWTSD74-3zyRPJ0dB8Rgb66XDv=qYKhYB6agTyQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 16:15 Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 3:59 PM, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)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

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