On Wed, April 13, 2011 11:16, Simon Riggs wrote: >> seems to be chugging along at a rather sedate pace. > > The replication lag is zero since the master and slave WAL locations match. > > > There seems to be nothing to expedite... why do you say it is slow? > > > Maybe because you see this as an "initial recovery process". The > recovery process remains active while processing continues. I think you're right - I'm not sure what I was expecting, but I need to be a bit more realistic, I think. The rsync took an hour or two, which means there are a lot of updates to catch up on (recovery has been at it for several hours now). Cheers Henry -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general