Alex Shulgin <alex.shulgin@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > How would it read that from a catalog if the cluster didn't recover > from the crash yet? > I'd think it's looking at last-modified timestamps of some of the > PGDATA files instead. No, it's looking at a last-update timestamp field in pg_control. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general