On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, Benedek Laszlo wrote:
We have waited for more than 2 hours, but psql still says that the system is starting up.
In addition to the suggestions you've gotten to try a later version instead, I'd add that you should consider running vmstat in another window while the recovery is going on. Recovery should show a steady flow of data moving to and from disk with a fair amount of CPU usage. If that stops for a while, it's probably stuck because of a recovery bug or some other issue, rather than still processing such that you should wait for it.
-- * Greg Smith gsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD