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This tracks the position of WAL that's been fully copied into WAL buffers by all processes emitting WAL. (For some reason we call that "WAL insertion"). This is updated using atomic monotonic advance during WaitXLogInsertionsToFinish, which is not when the insertions actually occur, but it's the only place where we know where have all the insertions have completed. This value is useful in WALReadFromBuffers, which can verify that callers don't try to read past what has been inserted. (However, more infrastructure is needed in order to actually use WAL after the flush point, since it could be lost.) The value is also useful in WaitXLogInsertionsToFinish() itself, since we can now exit quickly when all WAL has been already inserted, without even having to take any locks.
PostgreSQL Database Management System
This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL database management system.
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions. This distribution also contains C language bindings.
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