Re: Recovery Mode

Tom Lane wrote:
> "Samuel J. Sutjiono" <ssutjiono@wc-group.com> writes:
> > The database has been in recovery mode for about three hours.
>
> In that case you probably have a problem :-(.  Ordinarily I'd expect the
> recovery process runtime to not exceed the checkpoint interval, which is
> 5 minutes unless you changed it.  It sounds like the thing may be in
> some kind of infinite loop.  What is showing up in the postmaster log?

Also, can you try attaching to the running process and give us a
backtrace of that (bt)?

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