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    Dramatically reduce System V shared memory consumption. · b0fc0df9
    Robert Haas authored
    Except when compiling with EXEC_BACKEND, we'll now allocate only a tiny
    amount of System V shared memory (as an interlock to protect the data
    directory) and allocate the rest as anonymous shared memory via mmap.
    This will hopefully spare most users the hassle of adjusting operating
    system parameters before being able to start PostgreSQL with a
    reasonable value for shared_buffers.
    
    There are a bunch of documentation updates needed here, and we might
    need to adjust some of the HINT messages related to shared memory as
    well.  But it's not 100% clear how portable this is, so before we
    write the documentation, let's give it a spin on the buildfarm and
    see what turns red.
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