I wrote: > Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: >> It'd not be unreasonble to check pg_control first, and only after that >> indicates readyness check via the protocol.
> Hm, that's a thought. The problem here isn't the frequency of checks, > but the log spam. Actually, that wouldn't help much as things stand, because you can't tell from pg_control whether hot standby is active. Assuming that we want "pg_ctl start" to come back as soon as connections are allowed, it'd have to start probing when it sees DB_IN_ARCHIVE_RECOVERY, which means Jeff still has a problem with long recovery sessions. We could maybe address that by changing the set of states in pg_control (or perhaps simpler, adding a "hot standby active" flag there). That might have wider consequences than we really want to deal with post-beta1 though. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers