Re: BUG #7521: Cannot disable WAL log while using pg_dump

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, hlinnaka <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, boy <boy(at)atsc(dot)nl>, Pg Bugs <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: BUG #7521: Cannot disable WAL log while using pg_dump
Date: 2012-09-06 21:08:11
Message-ID: CA+TgmoYZK+FXoV7p14=AcdowuFJefB6ZfF3H67NTvvW_ug=QHw@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> How about secondary effects -- say pg_dump reads a lot of data into
> buffers that were previously dirty and those get evicted. Could page
> eviction cause lots of WAL to be emitted?

No. Simon's proposed checksum patch would have that effect, but currently no.

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Robert Haas
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