On Sun, Mar 20, 2022 at 12:11:19PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > PG Doc comments form <nore...@postgresql.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