Alvaro Herrera 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. There are no GIN and GiST indexes in this cluster. Here's the output of "xlogdump -S" on one of the WAL files that took over 4 minutes: 00000001000001D1000000EF: Unable to read continuation page? ** maybe continues to next segment ** --------------------------------------------------------------- TimeLineId: 1, LogId: 465, LogSegment: 239 Resource manager stats: [0]XLOG : 2 records, 112 bytes (avg 56.0 bytes) checkpoint: 2, switch: 0, backup end: 0 [1]Transaction: 427 records, 96512 bytes (avg 226.0 bytes) commit: 427, abort: 0 [2]Storage : 0 record, 0 byte (avg 0.0 byte) [3]CLOG : 0 record, 0 byte (avg 0.0 byte) [4]Database : 0 record, 0 byte (avg 0.0 byte) [5]Tablespace: 0 record, 0 byte (avg 0.0 byte) [6]MultiXact : 0 record, 0 byte (avg 0.0 byte) [7]RelMap : 0 record, 0 byte (avg 0.0 byte) [8]Standby : 84 records, 1352 bytes (avg 16.1 bytes) [9]Heap2 : 325 records, 9340 bytes (avg 28.7 bytes) [10]Heap : 7611 records, 4118483 bytes (avg 541.1 bytes) ins: 2498, upd/hot_upd: 409/2178, del: 2494 [11]Btree : 3648 records, 120814 bytes (avg 33.1 bytes) [12]Hash : 0 record, 0 byte (avg 0.0 byte) [13]Gin : 0 record, 0 byte (avg 0.0 byte) [14]Gist : 0 record, 0 byte (avg 0.0 byte) [15]Sequence : 0 record, 0 byte (avg 0.0 byte) Backup block stats: 2600 blocks, 11885880 bytes (avg 4571.5 bytes) Yours, Laurenz Albe -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance