* Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2010, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
* Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
*
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/access/transam/xlogutils.c,v 1.70 2010/02/09 21:43:29 tgl Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/access/transam/xlogutils.c,v 1.71 2010/07/08 16:08:30 tgl Exp $
*
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*/
* 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.)
+ * (Getting the buffer lock is not really necessary during single-process
+ * crash recovery, but some subroutines such as MarkBufferDirty will complain
+ * if we don't have the lock. In hot standby mode it's definitely necessary.)
*
* The returned buffer is exclusively-locked.
*