> On Thu, Nov 07, 2024 at 02:05:52PM GMT, Thomas Munro wrote: > On Sat, Oct 19, 2024 at 8:21 AM Dmitry Dolgov <9erthali...@gmail.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.
