Re: Flush Shared Buffer Cache

Suvankar Roy wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Can anyone help me out with how to flush out Shared Buffer Cache in
> Postgres.
>
> One way would be to restart the database, but I would like to avoid that.
AFAIK, that's the only way.

Is there a reason that you need to dump the shared buffers?  Perhaps if
we knew what you were trying to accomplish we could provide you with a
suitable solution that doesn't require a restart...

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