diff --git a/tests/parallel_test/cases.task b/tests/parallel_test/cases.task
index f903c829885dc9b69a7888b3ffa7c84044f87a63..22021875a960195c225e25729def45d57ac4fdbb 100644
--- a/tests/parallel_test/cases.task
+++ b/tests/parallel_test/cases.task
@@ -573,7 +573,7 @@
 10,,script,./test.sh -f general/compute/scalar_pow.sim
 9,,docs-examples-test,./test_go.sh
 9,,script,./test.sh -f general/parser/alter1.sim
-9,,script,./test.sh -c 'maxQueryTimeRange 3' -f general/parser/max_query_time_range.sim
+9,,script,./test.sh -c 'maxQueryTimeRange=3' -f general/parser/max_query_time_range.sim
 9,,script,./test.sh -f general/db/delete.sim
 9,,pytest,python3 test.py -f tools/taosdemoTestLimitOffset.py
 9,,develop-test,python3 ./test.py -f 5-taos-tools/taosbenchmark/custom_col_tag.py
diff --git a/tests/script/general/parser/max_query_time_range.sim b/tests/script/general/parser/max_query_time_range.sim
index 0a7be90a345cc4a3c869182b4a45877a601d0528..0cd04fbaaf10dba2dd3c7ac7f44e8a08fc987bab 100644
--- a/tests/script/general/parser/max_query_time_range.sim
+++ b/tests/script/general/parser/max_query_time_range.sim
@@ -3,10 +3,11 @@ system sh/stop_dnodes.sh
 system sh/deploy.sh -n dnode1 -i 1
 system sh/cfg.sh -n dnode1 -c walLevel -v 1
 system sh/exec.sh -n dnode1 -s start
-sleep 2000
+sleep 200
 sql connect
 
 print =============== step1
+print ====maxQueryTimeRange is set to 3S
 $db = querytimerange
 $ts = 1679399468000
 sql drop database $db -x step1
diff --git a/tests/script/test.sh b/tests/script/test.sh
index 5a6d289721578e33a509b28dddd98791839a43c8..dca834ff2d04ef6eb600940884c8511ee768a3b8 100755
--- a/tests/script/test.sh
+++ b/tests/script/test.sh
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ touch -f $TAOS_CFG
 TAOS_FLAG=$PRG_DIR/flag
 
 HOSTNAME=`hostname -f`
-
+CFG_ADD=`echo $CFG_STR | tr = ' '`
 echo " "                                          >> $TAOS_CFG
 echo "firstEp            ${HOSTNAME}:7100"        >> $TAOS_CFG
 echo "secondEp           ${HOSTNAME}:7200"        >> $TAOS_CFG
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ echo "wal                0"                       >> $TAOS_CFG
 echo "asyncLog           0"                       >> $TAOS_CFG
 echo "locale             en_US.UTF-8"             >> $TAOS_CFG
 echo "enableCoreFile     1"                       >> $TAOS_CFG
-echo $CFG_STR					  >> $TAOS_CFG
+echo $CFG_ADD					  >> $TAOS_CFG
 echo " "                                          >> $TAOS_CFG
 
 ulimit -n 600000