"Mr. Dan" <bitsandbytes88@hotmail.com> writes:
> We had to kill postmaster, and it's been ugly. The last backup finished
> successfully not last night, but the night before. This is 161 GB database.
> How long should I expect this to take before it starts.
Not longer than the time since the last checkpoint. What does
pg_controldata show? Is the recovery process actually doing any work?
regards, tom lane