Well...
In my personal experience, I have a multi GB customer database. During the PG dump, when the source (master) database is modified,
my pg_dump fails.
Pausing replication resolves that problem.
From: pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org <pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org> on behalf of Suresh Rajagopal <sureshr7@gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 2, 2017 12:59 PM
To: John Scalia
Cc: Pgsql-admin
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] How to stop Streaming Replication in slave for backup
Thanks John.
From: John Scalia <jayknowsunix@gmail.com>
To: Suresh Rajagopal <sureshr7@gmail.com>
Cc: Pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 2, 2017 10:27 AM
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] How to stop Streaming Replication in slave for backup
You really shouldn't need to stop replication in order to run pg_dump on a 9.3 database,
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