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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.

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"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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