On Sat, 2021-05-08 at 05:14 +0000, sivapostgres@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Yesterday [07th May] morning when we switched on the computer and subsequently PGAdmin, we got the message following message > FATAL: the database system is starting up You will have to wait until startup is completed. Either you didn't shut down PostgreSQL cleanly, or some server process crashed. The log should tell you which of the two happened. Did you set "checkpoint_timeout" to a high value? That will make the startup process potentially take longer to recover. Yours, Laurenz Albe -- Cybertec | https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com