Michael Paquier <michael.paqu...@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 7:41 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> I'm not sure if this will completely fix our problems with "pg_ctl start"
>> related buildfarm failures on very slow critters. It does get rid of the
>> hard wired 5-second timeout, but the 60-second timeout could still be an
>> issue. I think Noah was considering a patch to allow that number to be
>> raised. I'd be in favor of letting pg_ctl accept a default timeout length
>> from an environment variable, and then the slower critters could be fixed
>> by adjusting their buildfarm configurations.
> Being able to pass that as a command-line parameter (master-only
> change) would be welcome as well IMO.
Huh? The --timeout parameter has always been there. I'm just expressing
an opinion that modifying all the makefiles and test scripts to pass
through a timeout setting would be too messy.
regards, tom lane
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