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authorAlvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>2017-08-08 18:46:16 -0400
committerAlvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>2017-08-08 18:48:24 -0400
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parent6d81d0a215a5b843bf003b0a1c4b43f6d2cccc78 (diff)
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Reword some unclear comments
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-rw-r--r--src/backend/access/heap/heapam.c7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/access/heap/heapam.c b/src/backend/access/heap/heapam.c
index 26d96fd7fc0..af101689282 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/heap/heapam.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/heap/heapam.c
@@ -3594,7 +3594,7 @@ l2:
/*
* To prevent concurrent sessions from updating the tuple, we have to
- * temporarily mark it locked, while we release the lock.
+ * temporarily mark it locked, while we release the page-level lock.
*
* To satisfy the rule that any xid potentially appearing in a buffer
* written out to disk, we unfortunately have to WAL log this
@@ -3606,8 +3606,9 @@ l2:
/*
* Compute xmax / infomask appropriate for locking the tuple. This has
- * to be done separately from the lock, because the potentially
- * created multixact would otherwise be wrong.
+ * to be done separately from the combo that's going to be used for
+ * updating, because the potentially created multixact would otherwise
+ * be wrong.
*/
compute_new_xmax_infomask(HeapTupleHeaderGetRawXmax(oldtup.t_data),
oldtup.t_data->t_infomask,