Re: pg_ctl configurable timeout

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Freitag, 17. August 2007 schrieb Peter Eisentraut:
> > I'm having trouble with the hardcoded 60 second timeout in pg_ctl.  pg_ctl
> > sometimes just times out and there is no way to make it wait a little
> > longer. I would like to add an option to be able to change that, say
> > pg_ctl -w --timeout=120.  Comments?
> 
> Lost track of this, but it keeps biting me.
> 
> Somehow, the 60 second timeout seems completely arbitrary anyway.  Maybe we 
> should remove it altogether.  We could add an option as described above, but 
> then the packager who creates the init script or whoever creates the initial 
> configuration will have to make an equally arbitrary choice.  And most likely 
> you will not notice that your configuration is insufficient until you are 
> really in a bind.
> 
> What should we do?

How about an environment variable to control the timeout?  Is that
cleaner?

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