"David Parker" <dparker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > The problem we are having is that in a customer installation, the > startup on the database is taking significantly longer than we have ever > seen it take before. Are we talking seconds, minutes, hours, days? > But what I'm curious about is what set of things have to happen between > startup and the server being ready to accept requests. This happens on a > fresh install, so I don't *think* it should be recovery processing. If it's not doing recovery then the Postgres time proper should be no more than a second or so, in my experience. Look for outside-the-database factors. One possibility is a broken DNS configuration leading to long delays in trying to resolve socket addresses and such. I've never seen such a problem causing a delay over a minute though .... regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx)