On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 1:22 AM, ning chan <ninchan8328@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Albe, > Thanks for your kind response. > The wordings is confusing, it gives me impression that the recovery is going > on. Yes. Walreceiver receives the WAL records from the master server, and writes them to the pg_xlog directory. Then the startup process reads the WAL records from the pg_xlog directory, and replays them. Regards, -- Fujii Masao -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general