Hi Albe, Thanks for your kind response. The wordings is confusing, it gives me impression that the recovery is going on.
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 2:09 AM, Albe Laurenz <laurenz.a...@wien.gv.at>wrote: > ning chan wrote: > > I am new to PG Streaming Replication and I have a simple question > hopefully someone can answer this > > easily. > > > > I setup a Primary Hot Standby and they are connecting each other without > problem. > > Looking at the wal sender process, both servers pointing to the same > location as follow: > > > > Primary: > > postgres 3018 0.0 0.1 203888 3024 ? Ss 19:25 0:00 > postgres: wal sender process postgres > > 10.89.94.31(43169) streaming 0/D913018 > > > > Standby: > > postgres 3645 0.0 0.1 212556 3096 ? Ss 19:25 0:00 > postgres: wal receiver process > > streaming 0/D913018 > > > > My question is when looking at the standby processes, I see startup > process as follow: > > postgres 3320 0.0 0.0 203048 2084 ? Ss 18:11 0:00 > postgres: startup process > > recovering 00000001000000000000000D > > > > What is that suppose to mean? > > Is it really recovering some data from WAL record in the pg_xlog folder? > > That indicates the WAL segment that is currently being > recovered, but not that WAL is read from a file in pg_xlog. > > Yours, > Laurenz Albe >
