# FATAL: the database system is starting up

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/fatal-the-database-system-is-starting-up/52806
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [November 11, 2016, 6:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/fatal-the-database-system-is-starting-up/52806 "2016-11-11T18:23:37Z")
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### Author: ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2016, 5:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/fatal-the-database-system-is-starting-up/52806/5 "2016-11-14T17:17:07Z")

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Try increasing the sleep in templates/postgres.template.yml locally. Is your server slow? Database too big?

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