Out of date comment in xlogutils.c

From: Joshua Tolley <eggyknap(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Out of date comment in xlogutils.c
Date: 2010-07-08 16:01:22
Message-ID: 4c35f654.5429e70a.4f74.0e8c@mx.google.com
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I noticed the following out-of-date bits in a comment in xlogutils.c:

* LockBuffer(buffer, BUFFER_LOCK_EXCLUSIVE), for reading from the main
* fork.
*
- * (Getting the lock is not really necessary, since we expect that this is
- * only used during single-process XLOG replay, but some subroutines such
- * as MarkBufferDirty will complain if we don't. And hopefully we'll get
- * hot standby support in the future, where there will be backends running
- * read-only queries during XLOG replay.)
- *
* The returned buffer is exclusively-locked.
*
* For historical reasons, instead of a ReadBufferMode argument, this only

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Joshua Tolley / eggyknap
End Point Corporation
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