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Don't change health-timeout
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24 changes: 12 additions & 12 deletions ...ns/tutorials/use-containerized-services/create-postgresql-service-containers.md
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# Set health checks to wait until postgres has started
options: >-
--health-cmd pg_isready
--health-interval 10s
--health-timeout 5s
--health-retries 5
--health-interval 1s
--health-timeout 1s
--health-retries 30
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This change only updates the PostgreSQL healthcheck values in this file, but there are other PostgreSQL service container examples in the docs that still use the old --health-interval 10s --health-timeout 5s --health-retries 5 values:

  • content/actions/reference/workflows-and-actions/contexts.md (line 417)
  • content/actions/tutorials/migrate-to-github-actions/manual-migrations/migrate-from-circleci.md (lines 242 and 391)

For consistency, those examples should ideally be updated in this PR as well, so readers don't encounter conflicting recommendations depending on which page they land on.

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--health-interval 1s
--health-timeout 1s
--health-retries 30
--health-interval 10s
--health-timeout 5s
--health-retries 5

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# Set health checks to wait until postgres has started
options: >-
--health-cmd pg_isready
--health-interval 10s
--health-timeout 5s
--health-retries 5
--health-interval 1s
--health-timeout 1s
--health-retries 30
```

### Configuring the steps for jobs in containers
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# Set health checks to wait until postgres has started
options: >-
--health-cmd pg_isready
--health-interval 10s
--health-timeout 5s
--health-retries 5
--health-interval 1s
--health-timeout 1s
--health-retries 30
ports:
# Maps tcp port 5432 on service container to the host
- 5432:5432
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# Set health checks to wait until postgres has started
options: >-
--health-cmd pg_isready
--health-interval 10s
--health-timeout 5s
--health-retries 5
--health-interval 1s
--health-timeout 1s
--health-retries 30
ports:
# Maps tcp port 5432 on service container to the host
- 5432:5432
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