Changing the Shape or Hardware Configuration of a Database System

Change the shape or hardware configuration of an OCI Database with PostgreSQL database system.

After you provision a database system, you can change the shape to adapt to changes in performance requirements. For example, you might require a system with more OCPUs, or you might want to reduce costs by reducing the number of OCPUs. If the database system is using a flexible shape, you can scale the number of OCPUs and the amount of memory available to the system without selecting a new shape.

When changing the shape of a database system, the service replaces all existing nodes, one by one, to minimize cluster-wide downtime. Clients must reestablish existing PSQL connections during the replacement process.

For more information, including a list of shapes, see Supported Shapes.
Note

You can't change the series of a shape.

If you only need to change the configuration applied to a database system, see

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