Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> ... MarkBufferDirty needs to be called 
> before XLogInsert to avoid a race condition in checkpoint, see comments 
> in SyncOneBuffer in bufmgr.c for an explanation.

Right, see also the "Write-Ahead Log coding" section in
src/backend/access/transam/README (which is maybe not a very good place
for it, but it doesn't seem like bufmgr's turf either).

			regards, tom lane

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