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.