Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@alvh.no-ip.org> writes: > FATAL: the database system is starting up > DETAIL: WAL is being applied to recover from a system crash. > or > DETAIL: The system is applying WAL to recover from a system crash. > or > DETAIL: The startup process is applying WAL to recover from a system crash.
I don't think the postmaster has enough context to know if that's actually true. It just launches the startup process and waits for results. If somebody saw this during a normal (non-crash) startup, they'd be justifiably alarmed. regards, tom lane