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Tom Lane authored
misleadingly-named WriteBuffer routine, and instead require routines that change buffer pages to call MarkBufferDirty (which does exactly what it says). We also require that they do so before calling XLogInsert; this takes care of the synchronization requirement documented in SyncOneBuffer. Note that because bufmgr takes the buffer content lock (in shared mode) while writing out any buffer, it doesn't matter whether MarkBufferDirty is executed before the buffer content change is complete, so long as the content change is completed before releasing exclusive lock on the buffer. So it's OK to set the dirtybit before we fill in the LSN. This eliminates the former kluge of needing to set the dirtybit in LockBuffer. Aside from making the code more transparent, we can also add some new debugging assertions, in particular that the caller of MarkBufferDirty must hold the buffer content lock, not merely a pin.
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