diff --git a/helpers/deploy_postgis.sh b/helpers/deploy_postgis.sh
index d97a047840c7e88a39702430b5d076da08ee1dca..8c645e8a524b1b34bdf2f5861f0e5bcc80b635d9 100755
--- a/helpers/deploy_postgis.sh
+++ b/helpers/deploy_postgis.sh
@@ -38,6 +38,10 @@ helm upgrade -v 2 --install -f ${values_base}/values-postgis.yaml $EXTRA_ARGS --
 # do a little waiting for the postgres pod to be ready so future stages
 # don't fail to communicate with it
 echo "Start waiting for postgres: $(date +%Y%m%dT%H%M%S)"
+kubectl -n $ns get pods
+sleep 5
+echo "Done sleeping. Making sure the pod(s) are ready. ${release_name}"
+kubectl -n $ns get pods
 kubectl wait -n $ns --selector=app.kubernetes.io/instance=${release_name} --timeout 120s --for=condition=Ready pod
 status=$?
 echo "Done waiting for postgis: $(date +%Y%m%dT%H%M%S) : $status"