Re: systemd service start - disable timeout with "infinity" - Mailing list pgsql-docs

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