Why might it take so long to start up a cleanly-stopped instance?

[Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr@xxxxxxxxx>]

PG 14.15 on RHEL 7.9

This is a rather small system, and only one or two user connections existed at the time.

$ pg_ctl stop -wt9999 && pg_ctl start -wt9999
waiting for server to shut down........... done
server stopped
waiting for server to start.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................2024-12-14 13:21:10.820 EST            24567            00000   LOG:  00000: redirecting log output to logging collector process

2024-12-14 13:21:10.820 EST            24567            00000   HINT:  Future log output will appear in directory "/var/log/postgresql".
2024-12-14 13:21:10.820 EST            24567            00000   LOCATION:  SysLogger_Start, syslogger.c:674
. done
server started

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