Re: [HACKERS] Re: Clarifying "server starting" messaging in pg_ctlstart without --wait

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 3:59 PM, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.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.

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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