On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> writes:
>> On 06.09.2012 13:07, Robert Haas wrote:
>>> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Tom Lane<tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>>> 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..
>
> Sorry, I was thinking of the freeze case, which is also somewhat
> unlikely --- but if it were happening, it could easily happen on
> most/all pages of a table.
But that only happens in vacuum, which pg_dump does not do.
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