Joe Carr <joe.carr@gmail.com> wrote:
> and the "FATAL: the database system is starting up" message will
> continue.
I believe that you get that when there is an attempt to connect to a
database which is in recovery mode. I think the pg_ctl program
makes attempts for about one minute before it gives up. If you have
some other monitoring software which is attempting connection, or
some software for managing failover, perhaps that's the cause?
-Kevin