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To: Babak Ghadiri <bbkghadiri6@gmail.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Parallelizing startup with many databases
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2026 01:58:25 +0100
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On Fri, Jan 2, 2026, 08:55 Babak Ghadiri <bbkghadiri6@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I hope you are doing well.
>
> In PostgreSQL 16, startup appears to initialize databases sequentially and
> primarily uses a single CPU core. In clusters with a very large number of
> databases (around 5,000 in our case), this results in noticeably long
> startup times after restarts or crash recovery.
>
You probably want to consider setting:
recovery_init_sync_method=syncfs
I'm 99% certain that that will solve your problem.
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-error-handling.html
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/11bc2bb7-ecb5-3ad0-b39f-df632734cd81@discourse.org
PS It took me way to long to find that setting. I think we should move it
from the error handling docs page to the page with all of the other
recovery settings.
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-wal.html#RUNTIME-CONFIG-WAL-RECOVERY
>
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