Sum of written buffers bigger than allocation?

From: pinker <pinker(at)onet(dot)eu>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Sum of written buffers bigger than allocation?
Date: 2018-04-08 15:28:35
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Hi All!

First time I see that the sum of written buffers:
3765929+878326121 = 882092050 = select
pg_size_pretty(882092050::numeric*8192) = 6730 GB

is bigger than buffers_alloc value in pg_stat_bgwriter view:
buffers_alloc | 20426161 = 156 GB

buffers_checkpoint | 878599316
buffers_clean | 0
maxwritten_clean | 0
buffers_backend | 3766409
buffers_backend_fsync | 0
buffers_alloc | 20426161

It's kinda mysterious... Any explanations?
Does it mean that the same buffers were written over and over again?

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