On Fri, 2024-01-26 at 15:17 +0100, lejeczek wrote: > I have I think pretty weird situation, my primary says: > -> $ sudo --login -u postgres psql --quiet --port=5435 -x -c 'show max_wal_senders' > -[ RECORD 1 ]---+--- > max_wal_senders | 10 > > and slave when told to start, says: > .... > 2024-01-26 15:13:14.315 CET [1279777] FATAL: recovery aborted because of insufficient parameter settings > 2024-01-26 15:13:14.315 CET [1279777] DETAIL: max_wal_senders = 10 is a lower setting than on the primary server, where its value was 48. > > and I've checked config files (I'm on Ubuntu with pgSQL 14.10) - no _max_wal_senders_ set there. Perhaps max_wal_senders was 48 earlier, and that value is logged in the WAL? Yours, Laurenz Albe