Ilnur Khanov wrote: > For me, when I saw "FATAL: the database system is starting up", nothing else hasn't been working: pgAdmin, psql, business apps. "FATAL" just means that a client connection is terminated. In this case, because the database is not up. > Logs has been showing cycles: client connect - worker starts - "the-FATAL-error" - > worker shutting down with exit code (1). No any informative errors. > > I think, database engine is in some sort of recovery mode after crush, but I was > waiting long enough - no CPU or HDD activity. If it's some sort of warning and waiting for me to check consistency and manually reset this mode flag, but then how to do this?! > > More important: now problem is not solved, "hot_standby = on" is just workaround letting query databases. > But PostgreSQL is still in some strange mode and I don't understand how serious is it and how resolve it correctly. You cannot modify the database, right? And "SELECT pg_is_in_recovery();" returns TRUE, right? Could you show us what is written to the log after a new startup? Yours, Laurenz Albe