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authorfanquake <fanquake@gmail.com>2020-08-21 12:08:38 +0800
committerfanquake <fanquake@gmail.com>2020-08-21 12:48:46 +0800
commit0d9e14a6466cd1644cb659b7b79d40d8761034c0 (patch)
treec4abe62a0b2e081b4b02c3da2b63b0781e03b783 /src/index/base.h
parent27eeb0337b083713879645bcdb28b046e91d631c (diff)
parent8ed2f1ed78937eff0bb8b5318a30da908e33af24 (diff)
Merge #19733: Move comment about BaseIndex::DB from TxIndex::DB
8ed2f1ed78937eff0bb8b5318a30da908e33af24 Remove unused includes (Marcin Jachymiak) cf095a53fcef8ad72e2f1177660ef50bc7e340ad Move comment about BaseIndex::DB from TxIndex::DB (Marcin Jachymiak) Pull request description: Moves a comment about the `BaseIndex::DB` from the `TxIndex::DB` into the correct place. Originally part of https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/14053. ACKs for top commit: fanquake: ACK 8ed2f1ed78937eff0bb8b5318a30da908e33af24 Tree-SHA512: cb4e2b916c7ab996961cc2e1d910bc4b8a1700eb32b70fc1657ca720117a7a84f7337fe5e4fb30e047aa92c31eaa976eaaa5cb8f861877f2ff6f4a59bb94f4e9
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diff --git a/src/index/base.h b/src/index/base.h
index 74bc1ebfd2..8559e3cb64 100644
--- a/src/index/base.h
+++ b/src/index/base.h
@@ -27,6 +27,13 @@ struct IndexSummary {
class BaseIndex : public CValidationInterface
{
protected:
+ /**
+ * The database stores a block locator of the chain the database is synced to
+ * so that the index can efficiently determine the point it last stopped at.
+ * A locator is used instead of a simple hash of the chain tip because blocks
+ * and block index entries may not be flushed to disk until after this database
+ * is updated.
+ */
class DB : public CDBWrapper
{
public: