diff --git a/warehouse/tests/sqlx_meta.rs b/warehouse/tests/sqlx_meta.rs
index fba3def62..98077ab2e 100644
--- a/warehouse/tests/sqlx_meta.rs
+++ b/warehouse/tests/sqlx_meta.rs
@@ -53,35 +53,6 @@ async fn sql_insert_test(pool: Pool<Sqlite>) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
     Ok(())
 }
 
-// #[sqlx::test]
-// async fn test_migrate_from_file(pool: Pool<Sqlite>) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
-//     // The directory must be relative to the project root (the directory containing Cargo.toml), unlike include_str!() which uses compiler internals to get the path of the file where it was invoked.
-//     sqlx::migrate!("tests/mock_migrations").run(&pool).await?;
-
-//     let mut conn = pool.acquire().await?;
-
-//     let id = sqlx::query(
-//         r#"
-//           INSERT INTO foo (contact_id, first_name)
-//           VALUES
-//             (1, "hello");
-//         "#,
-//     )
-//     .execute(&mut *conn)
-//     .await?
-//     .last_insert_rowid();
-
-//     assert!(id == 1);
-
-//     let a = sqlx::query("SELECT * FROM foo")
-//         .fetch_all(&mut *conn)
-//         .await?;
-
-//     let q = a.first().unwrap().get_unchecked::<u64, _>(0);
-//     assert!(q == 1);
-
-//     Ok(())
-// }
 
 #[tokio::test]
 
@@ -110,6 +81,5 @@ async fn test_migrate_from_file_pg() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
 
     let q = a.first().unwrap().get_unchecked::<i64, _>(0);
     assert!(q == 1);
-
     Ok(())
 }
diff --git a/warehouse/tests/support/pg_testcontainer.rs b/warehouse/tests/support/pg_testcontainer.rs
index 5ed58f796..123e371e3 100644
--- a/warehouse/tests/support/pg_testcontainer.rs
+++ b/warehouse/tests/support/pg_testcontainer.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 use once_cell::sync::Lazy;
 use sqlx::PgPool;
-use std::{thread, time::Duration};
 use testcontainers::{clients::Cli, core::WaitFor, Container, GenericImage, RunnableImage};
 
 // need to wrap the docker cli in a once_cell so that the borrow does not cause issues when container is passed along
@@ -32,16 +31,14 @@ pub fn start_container<'a>() -> Container<'a, GenericImage> {
         .with_env_var("POSTGRES_USER".to_owned(), "postgres".to_owned())
         .with_env_var("POSTGRES_PASSWORD".to_owned(), "postgres".to_owned())
         .with_wait_for(WaitFor::message_on_stdout(
-            "database system is ready to accept connections",
+            // "database system is ready to accept connections",
+            "PostgreSQL init process complete; ready for start up."
         ));
 
     let image = RunnableImage::from(container);
     // need to wrap the docker cli in a once_cell so that the borrow does not cause issues when container is passed along
     let container = CLI.run(image);
     container.start();
-    // TODO: not sure why we need a bit of a wait since we have the WaitFor above
-    // will otherwise get: "unexpected response from SSLRequest: 0x00 (sqlx_postgres::connection::tls:97)"
-    thread::sleep(Duration::from_millis(500));
 
     container
 }