Albe Laurenz wrote:
> I am configuring streaming replication with hot standby
> with PostgreSQL 9.1.3 on RHEL 6 (kernel 2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64).
> PostgreSQL was compiled from source.
>
> It works fine, except that starting the standby took for ever:
> it took the system more than 80 minutes to replay 48 WAL files
> and connect to the primary.
>
> Can anybody think of an explanation why it takes that long?
Can you do a quick xlogdump of those files? Maybe there is something
unusual (say particular types of GIN/GiST index updates) on the files
that take longer.
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