Hi Artis, I'm using debian. We discovered another postgres on the network was trying to connect. What about the "postgres: startup process" ? Should this always be visibile on a system reading WALs? Nobody has answered that yet. Glyn --- Artis Caune <Artis.Caune@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Glyn Astill wrote: > > FATAL: the database system is starting up > > FATAL: the database system is starting up > > FATAL: the database system is starting up > > > > > > As far as I know theres nothing else trying to connect. > > > I think you are using FreeBSD, and default pg_ctl flags in rc.d > contains > "-w" option, which wait for start/stop to complete. It check this > by > connecting to postmaster. > > change postgresql_flags in /etc/rc.conf to: > postgresql_flags="-s -m fast" > or > postgresql_flags="-s -m smart" > > > ---------------------------(end of > broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster > __________________________________________________________ Sent from Yahoo! Mail - a smarter inbox http://uk.mail.yahoo.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match