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It helps but does not fully solve it if I need PG to have 512 GB of memory buffers under load to have reasonable latency starting from 0 and going through a number of VM migrations to finally get to properly sized VM with 512 GB of hot data in memory gonna cause a ton of latency.

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The buffers will be cached in remote storage - so it will just work likely.

In the future we are considering separating the buffer pool from compute and turning off compute doesn't drop the buffer cache. It's a research project but PolarDB did that for AliCloud.

"Remote buffers" sounds like it'd introduce a base level of latency anyway.

Though computers are pretty fast these days (and RDMA exists), so if the pieces are in the same data centre and using good interconnects it's probably not going to make much of a practical difference.

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