myasnikovdaniil 17f3386453 [Backport release-1.6] fix(postgres): cap the default shared_buffers at a quarter of the memory limit (#4725)
## What this PR does

Backport of #4724 to `release-1.6`, including the memory-request cap
required by CloudNativePG when memory is overcommitted.

The chart renders no `shared_buffers`, and CloudNativePG 1.28.2, the
operator version on this branch, does not set one either, so PostgreSQL
starts with its built-in 128MB. That is the whole memory limit on
`t1.nano` and half of it on `t1.micro`, the chart's default preset, and
a dump, index scans over a large table or a replica catching up after a
failover can fill the pool and get the instance OOMKilled. Below a 512Mi
memory limit the chart defaults `shared_buffers` to a quarter of the
limit with a 16MB floor, capped at the rendered memory request rounded
down to whole MiB. From 512Mi up nothing is rendered and those clusters
are unchanged. An explicit `shared_buffers` in `postgresql.parameters`
still wins.

On upgrade every cluster below 512Mi that does not set `shared_buffers`
gets the new value. With the CloudNativePG defaults the chart keeps,
`unsupervised` and `restart`, the operator restarts the replicas first
and then the primary in place, so writes pause for one PostgreSQL
restart, and a single-instance cluster is unavailable for that time.

### Validation

- The commit applies cleanly to `release-1.6` at `da98ddc08`.
- `helm unittest` passes all 50 tests in 7 suites on this branch. The
added cases cover memory overcommit, fractional MiB requests, a request
below the 16MB floor, explicit values and the unchanged 512Mi threshold.
Four cases fail against the previous PR template.
- `helm template` of the chart on this branch renders `t1.small` exactly
as before, and the default preset differs only by `shared_buffers:
"64MB"`.
- `make generate` with cozyvalues-gen v1.6.0, the version this branch's
CI pins, leaves the generated files unchanged.

### Screenshots

Not a UI change.

### Downstream repositories

Same diff as #4724, where the trigger map was walked file by file. No
entry matches.

- [x] No downstream repository is affected by this change
- [ ] [cozystack/website](https://github.com/cozystack/website) -
follow-up:
- [ ]
[cozystack/terraform-provider-cozystack](https://github.com/cozystack/terraform-provider-cozystack)
- follow-up:
- [ ]
[cozystack/ansible-cozystack](https://github.com/cozystack/ansible-cozystack)
- follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/ccp](https://github.com/cozystack/ccp) - follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/talm](https://github.com/cozystack/talm) - follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/cozyhr](https://github.com/cozystack/cozyhr) -
follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/cozy-proxy](https://github.com/cozystack/cozy-proxy) -
follow-up:
- [ ]
[cozystack/cozystack-telemetry-server](https://github.com/cozystack/cozystack-telemetry-server)
- follow-up:
- [ ]
[cozystack/external-apps-example](https://github.com/cozystack/external-apps-example)
- follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/examples](https://github.com/cozystack/examples) -
follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/community](https://github.com/cozystack/community) -
follow-up:

### Release note

```release-note
fix(postgres): backport the small-preset shared_buffers default to 1.6. Without an explicit shared_buffers and below a 512Mi memory limit, PostgreSQL now gets a quarter of the limit with a 16MB floor, capped at the memory request, instead of its built-in 128MB, so a full buffer pool no longer takes the whole limit on t1.nano or half of it on t1.micro. Affected clusters restart their instances once on upgrade, the primary last.
```
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