On Mon, Oct 04, 2021 at 12:35:48PM +0200, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > Hi, > I just stopped and restarted a Postgres 11 docker container which so far has > happily streamed the WAL from its primary but after the restart it now seems > to completely ignore the recovery.conf file and just outputs this: If this is 11, then it would mean that at some point in time Pg was told to finish recovery. Using trigger file, pg_ctl promote, some other means. But, perhaps it's pg 12 (or newer)? If so, then recovery.conf no longer is parsed. Best regards, depesz