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authorNoah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>2016-02-10 20:34:02 -0500
committerNoah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>2016-02-10 20:34:02 -0500
commit2ffa86962077c588d8bdf6244e2ef960338d3883 (patch)
tree3721fd76a645fef5c524eb4794fa2410e51feaf3 /doc/src
parent51e78ab4ff3282963f5e8ba2633040829413aefa (diff)
Accept pg_ctl timeout from the PGCTLTIMEOUT environment variable.
Many automated test suites call pg_ctl. Buildfarm members axolotl, hornet, mandrill, shearwater, sungazer and tern have failed when server shutdown took longer than the pg_ctl default 60s timeout. This addition permits slow hosts to easily raise the timeout without us editing a --timeout argument into every test suite pg_ctl call. Back-patch to 9.1 (all supported versions) for the sake of automated testing. Reviewed by Tom Lane.
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-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_ctl-ref.sgml15
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_ctl-ref.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_ctl-ref.sgml
index eaa0cc8b370..6ceb7816dc8 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_ctl-ref.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_ctl-ref.sgml
@@ -362,7 +362,9 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
<listitem>
<para>
The maximum number of seconds to wait when waiting for startup or
- shutdown to complete. The default is 60 seconds.
+ shutdown to complete. Defaults to the value of the
+ <envar>PGCTLTIMEOUT</> environment variable or, if not set, to 60
+ seconds.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -487,6 +489,17 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
+ <term><envar>PGCTLTIMEOUT</envar></term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Default limit on the number of seconds to wait when waiting for startup
+ or shutdown to complete. If not set, the default is 60 seconds.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
<term><envar>PGDATA</envar></term>
<listitem>