> 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@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.
