> [!RecoveryPause] > <table><tr><td rowspan="4" width="25%"><img src="assets/wl_ipc_recoverypause.png"></td><td><b>Wait Category</b></td><td>IPC</td></tr><tr><td><b>Mechanism</b></td><td><code>RecoveryPause</code></td></tr><tr><td><b>Operations</b></td><td><a href="Operations/Distributed/Redistribute">Redistribute</a></td></tr><tr><td><b>Resources</b></td><td><a href="Resources/CPU">CPU</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><b>Manual Operational Halt</b>. Pausing recovery is a diagnostic tool used to "freeze" a standby at a specific point in time so that an administrator can run queries to verify the state of the data without the incoming WAL stream changing the results.</td></tr></table>