Re: systemd service start - disable timeout with "infinity"

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: jordan(at)jwillikers(dot)com
Cc: pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: systemd service start - disable timeout with "infinity"
Date: 2022-03-20 16:11:19
Message-ID: 1445301.1647792679@sss.pgh.pa.us
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PG Doc comments form <noreply(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
> In the service start section of the documentation, it is stated that using a
> value of zero for TimeoutSec disables the systemd timeout. This is not
> accurate and according to the documentation of systemd,
> https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.service.html#TimeoutStartSec=,
> this should be set to "infinity" to disable the timeout.

Hmm ... maybe zero works too, or worked when this was written?
But you're right that "infinity" is now the documented way
to do it. Will fix, thanks for the report.

regards, tom lane

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