Re: Changing shared_buffers without restart

> On Mon, Jul 14, 2025 at 08:56:56AM -0400, Andres Freund wrote:
> > Ah, I see what you mean folks. But I'm talking here only about buffers
> > which will be allocated after extending shared memory -- they  must go
> > through the freelist first (I don't see why not, any other options?),
> > and clock sweep will have a chance to pick them up only afterwards. That
> > makes the freelist sort of an entry point for those buffers.
>
> Clock sweep can find any buffer, independent of whether it's on the freelist.

It does the search based on nextVictimBuffer, where the actual buffer
will be a modulo of NBuffers, right? If that's correct and I get
everything else right, that would mean as long as NBuffers stays the
same (which is the case for the purposes of the current discussion) new
buffers, allocated on top of NBuffers after shared memory increase, will
not be picked by the clock sweep.