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WalReceiverMain

Short Description

Waiting in main loop of WAL receiver process.

Additional Information​

From the PostgreSQL documentation - Waiting in main loop of WAL receiver process.

The WalSender process is seen in systems where replication is enabled. The sender process takes the WAL transactions and send them so the replica where the WalReceiver process write the transactions to WAL segments.

How to reduce this wait​

This is an idle wait and is normal to see.

PostgreSQL docs - Wait Events of Type Activity

Percona Blog - Setting up Streaming Replication

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