diff --git a/src/test/recovery/t/005_replay_delay.pl b/src/test/recovery/t/005_replay_delay.pl
index 986851b..9b25f9e 100644
--- a/src/test/recovery/t/005_replay_delay.pl
+++ b/src/test/recovery/t/005_replay_delay.pl
@@ -24,19 +24,18 @@ $node_standby->init_from_backup($node_master, $backup_name,
 	has_streaming => 1);
 $node_standby->append_conf(
 	'recovery.conf', qq(
-recovery_min_apply_delay = '2s'
+recovery_min_apply_delay = '20s'
 ));
 $node_standby->start;
 
 # Make new content on master and check its presence in standby
-# depending on the delay of 2s applied above.
+# depending on the delay of 20s applied above.
 $node_master->safe_psql('postgres',
 	"INSERT INTO tab_int VALUES (generate_series(11,20))");
-sleep 1;
 
 # Here we should have only 10 rows
 my $result = $node_standby->safe_psql('postgres', "SELECT count(*) FROM tab_int");
-is($result, qq(10), 'check content with delay of 1s');
+is($result, qq(10), 'check content with no delay');
 
 # Now wait for replay to complete on standby
 my $until_lsn =
@@ -46,4 +45,4 @@ my $caughtup_query =
 $node_standby->poll_query_until('postgres', $caughtup_query)
   or die "Timed out while waiting for standby to catch up";
 $result = $node_standby->safe_psql('postgres', "SELECT count(*) FROM tab_int");
-is($result, qq(20), 'check content with delay of 2s');
+is($result, qq(20), 'check content with delay of 20s');