diff --git a/HISTORY.rst b/HISTORY.rst
index 21e0a5ee66..69362d690f 100644
--- a/HISTORY.rst
+++ b/HISTORY.rst
@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@
   indexes, parsing, documents, metadata, ocr, permission,
   user management.
 - Split document app links.
+- Make Postgres container wait delay configurable.
 
 3.2.9 (2019-XX-XX)
 ==================
diff --git a/contrib/scripts/install/docker.sh b/contrib/scripts/install/docker.sh
index af81926b8f..33663c5f34 100755
--- a/contrib/scripts/install/docker.sh
+++ b/contrib/scripts/install/docker.sh
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ set -e
 : ${DOCKER_POSTGRES_CONTAINER:=mayan-edms-postgres}
 : ${DOCKER_POSTGRES_VOLUME:=/docker-volumes/mayan-edms/postgres}
 : ${DOCKER_POSTGRES_PORT:=5432}
+: ${DOCKER_POSTGRES_DELAY:=10}
 : ${DOCKER_REDIS_IMAGE:=redis:5.0-alpine}
 : ${DOCKER_REDIS_CONTAINER:=mayan-edms-redis}
 : ${DOCKER_REDIS_PORT:=6379}
@@ -57,6 +58,7 @@ echo "DOCKER_POSTGRES_IMAGE: $DOCKER_POSTGRES_IMAGE"
 echo "DOCKER_POSTGRES_CONTAINER: $DOCKER_POSTGRES_CONTAINER"
 echo "DOCKER_POSTGRES_VOLUME: $DOCKER_POSTGRES_VOLUME"
 echo "DOCKER_POSTGRES_PORT: $DOCKER_POSTGRES_PORT"
+echo "DOCKER_POSTGRES_DELAY: $DOCKER_POSTGRES_DELAY"
 echo "DOCKER_REDIS_IMAGE: $DOCKER_REDIS_IMAGE"
 echo "DOCKER_REDIS_CONTAINER: $DOCKER_REDIS_CONTAINER"
 echo "DOCKER_REDIS_PORT: $DOCKER_REDIS_PORT"
@@ -166,8 +168,8 @@ redis-server \
 >/dev/null
 echo "Done"
 
-echo -n "* Waiting for the PostgreSQL container to be ready (10 seconds)..."
-sleep 10
+echo -n "* Waiting for the PostgreSQL container to be ready (${DOCKER_POSTGRES_DELAY} seconds)..."
+sleep $DOCKER_POSTGRES_DELAY
 echo "Done"
 
 echo -n "* Deploying Mayan EDMS container..."