| From: | Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | jordan(at)jwillikers(dot)com, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: systemd service start - disable timeout with "infinity" |
| Date: | 2022-03-20 19:36:29 |
| Message-ID: | 20220320193629.GW28503@telsasoft.com |
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On Sun, Mar 20, 2022 at 12:11:19PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> 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.
FYI
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20211129220234.GQ17618%40telsasoft.com
https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=pgrpms.git&a=commitdiff&h=c74dbe3781478597712066354d19b754ba4b7683
+# 0 is the same as infinity, but "infinity" needs systemd 229
+TimeoutStartSec=0
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