Re: [BUGS] BUG #14851: Systemd kills long-running recovery

On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 6:10 AM, <gdr@gdr.name> wrote:
>
> The following bug has been logged on the website:
>
> Bug reference:      14851
> Logged by:          GDR !
> Email address:      gdr@gdr.name
> PostgreSQL version: 9.6.5
> Operating system:   CentOS 7 / pgdg
> Description:
>
> Summary: I think the line "TimeoutSec=300" in the systemd unit file isn't
> necessary
>
> Problem: I'm running a Postgres replication slave  fresh after
> pg_basebackup. It has about 12 hours worth of xlogs to replay.  After 5
> minutes of "systemctl start postgresql-9.6" not returning to shell, systemd
> kills the server in the middle of recovery.
>
> This is because of TimeoutSec=300 in the systemd unit file. I don't think
> removing this statement will have any negative effects and I propose that
> it's not included in the pgdg distribution.
>

Hi,