Ed L. wrote:
> We have ~75 pgsql clusters running in environments where downtime
> comes at a premium cost. We often run multiple clusters on a
> single box, and find it necessary to adjust the size of the
> static DB cache as we add or move clusters. Unfortunately, that
> means some downtime. It would be extremely useful in minimizing
> downtime to be able to dynamically resize the DB cache without
> having to restart the cluster. How hard would that be?
We can't think of how to do because it is all shared memory shared by
ever forked process --- does that help explain its complexity?
;-)
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