Re: Changing shared_buffers without restart

From: Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Changing shared_buffers without restart
Date: 2024-11-08 16:40:03
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> On Thu, Nov 07, 2024 at 02:05:52PM GMT, Thomas Munro wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 19, 2024 at 8:21 AM Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > Currently it
> > supports only an increase of shared_buffers.
>
> Just BTW in case it is interesting, Palak and I experimented with how
> to shrink the buffer pool while PostgreSQL is running, while we were
> talking about 13453ee (which it shares infrastructure with). This
> version fails if something is pinned and in the way of the shrink
> operation, but you could imagine other policies (wait, cancel it,
> ...):
>
> https://github.com/macdice/postgres/commit/db26fe0c98476cdbbd1bcf553f3b7864cb142247

Thanks, looks interesting. I'll try to experiment with that in the next
version of the patch.

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