Re: when the startup process doesn't - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> ... I doubt that we can get away
> with a GetCurrentTimestamp() after applying every WAL record ... that
> seems like it will be slow.

Yeah, that's going to be pretty awful even on machines with fast
gettimeofday, never mind ones where it isn't.

It should be possible to use utils/misc/timeout.c to manage the
interrupt, I'd think.

            regards, tom lane