Hi Michael, > To answer to your question based on the code, you can check for the > code paths calling CheckForStandbyTrigger() in xlog.c when it comes to > promotion detection in the WAL replay. In short, > WaitForWALToBecomeAvailable() tells that after the promotion is > detected in the startup process, then recovery would still try to > replay as much WAL as possible from the archives or pg_wal before a > failover. Great. That should make my life a lot easier. I will look into the code to confirm it. Best regards, -- Tatsuo Ishii SRA OSS, Inc. Japan English: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en.php Japanese:http://www.sraoss.co.jp