On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 06:42:07AM +0000, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 08:45 +0600, Markus Bertheau wrote:
>
> > What about allowing shared_buffers to be only greater than it was at
> > server start and allocating the extra shared_buffers in one or more
> > additional shm segments?
>
> Sounds possible.
If we build that, it's probably not a far stretch to just allocate
shared memory as a number of smaller segments; that would allow us to
grow as well as shrink.
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