diff --git a/helpers/deploy_postgis.sh b/helpers/deploy_postgis.sh
index 8c645e8a524b1b34bdf2f5861f0e5bcc80b635d9..552f23f0899f12df74e3aa10b7fef497b18b3fe2 100755
--- a/helpers/deploy_postgis.sh
+++ b/helpers/deploy_postgis.sh
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ helm upgrade -v 2 --install -f ${values_base}/values-postgis.yaml $EXTRA_ARGS --
 # 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
+sleep 25
 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