Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes:
> On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 08:22:42PM +0100, Dawid Kuroczko wrote:
>> ....while we are at it -- one feature would be great for 8.4, an
>> ability to shange shared buffers size "on the fly".
> Shared memory segments can't be resized... There's not even a kernel
> API to do it.
Even if there were, it seems unlikely that we could reallocate shared
memory without stopping all active transactions, so it'd be barely less
invasive than a postmaster restart anyhow.
regards, tom lane
