On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 11:42 AM, Willy-Bas Loos <willybas@gmail.com> wrote:
> It doesn't seem logical to me that pg_dump should generate wal, but i
> haven't been able to find a different explanation so far.
> So to make sure, i want to ask you people: can it be that running pg_dump
> creates a lot of wal?
Interesting. pg_dump works in a transactional model, but it should be
on read only. Is it possible you have dirty pages that are made
persistent due to pg_dump? Or could it be a vacuum process or
something related to freezing the tuples?
Luca