Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org> writes:
> Re: Peter J. Holzer 2017-11-12 <20171112173559(dot)m6chmbyf4vz6fu3c(at)hjp(dot)at>
>> Wouldn't it be better to remove the timeout?
> If you don't want to block, don't depend on the database service. That
> question is independent from the timeout.
Agreed, but I think Peter has a point: why is there a timeout at all,
let alone one as short as 30 seconds? Since systemd doesn't serialize
service starts unnecessarily, there seems little value in giving up
quickly. And we know that cases such as crash recovery may take more
than that.
regards, tom lane