wal archive peak during pg_dump

please excuse my forgetting [GENERAL] in the subject of the other mail.

On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 11:42 AM, Willy-Bas Loos <willybas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've set up hot standby slaves for a couple of clusters.
> The wal is cleaned up after use, i don't use it as a backup (yet).
> It seems that the amount of wal peaks shortly after midnight, when pg_dump
> is running.
>
> 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?
>
> Cheers,
>
> WBL
>
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