On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinn...@iki.fi> wrote:
> On 06.09.2012 13:07, Robert Haas wrote:
>>>> pg_dump doesn't modify any data, so I don't see how it could be
>>>> causing WAL logs to get generated.
>>>
>>> Doesn't hint-bit setting cause WAL traffic these days?
>>
>> I sure as heck don't think so.
>
> It does not. HOT page pruning does, however. It could be that..

True, but wouldn't you have to be fantastically unlucky for that to
amount to anything material?  I mean, what are the chances of that
happening on more than a very small percentage of blocks?

-- 
Robert Haas
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