Does anyone know what factors affect the recovery time of postgres if it does not shutdown cleanly? With the same size database I've seen times from a few seconds to a few minutes. The longest time was 33 minutes. The 33 minutes was after a complete system crash and reboot so there are a lot of other things going on as well. 125 seconds was the longest time I could reproduce by just doing a kill -9 on postmaster.
Is it the size of the transaction log? The dead space in files?
I'm running postges 7.3.4 in Red Hat 8.0. Yes, yes I know it's crazy but for a variety of reasons upgrading is not currently feasible.
Jim
