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-rw-r--r--src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c b/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c
index d9fe05f7cde..f384bbbe716 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
* Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2005, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
* Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
*
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c,v 1.187 2005/04/17 03:04:29 momjian Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c,v 1.188 2005/04/23 18:49:54 tgl Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@@ -4925,7 +4925,10 @@ CreateCheckPoint(bool shutdown, bool force)
*
* This I/O could fail for various reasons. If so, we will fail to
* complete the checkpoint, but there is no reason to force a system
- * panic. Accordingly, exit critical section while doing it.
+ * panic. Accordingly, exit critical section while doing it. (If
+ * we are doing a shutdown checkpoint, we probably *should* panic ---
+ * but that will happen anyway because we'll still be inside the
+ * critical section established by ShutdownXLOG.)
*/
END_CRIT_SECTION();