Albe Laurenz wrote: > I am configuring streaming replication with hot standby > with PostgreSQL 9.1.3 on RHEL 6 (kernel 2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64). > PostgreSQL was compiled from source. > > It works fine, except that starting the standby took for ever: > it took the system more than 80 minutes to replay 48 WAL files > and connect to the primary. > > Can anybody think of an explanation why it takes that long? Can you do a quick xlogdump of those files? Maybe there is something unusual (say particular types of GIN/GiST index updates) on the files that take longer. -- Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance