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| author | Marcin Jachymiak <marcin.jachymiak1@gmail.com> | 2019-01-17 14:08:21 -0500 |
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| committer | Marcin Jachymiak <marcin.jachymiak1@gmail.com> | 2020-08-18 21:47:59 -0400 |
| commit | cf095a53fcef8ad72e2f1177660ef50bc7e340ad (patch) | |
| tree | 9a95144a3e3e60572c14368322162ce2b551c96b /src/index/base.h | |
| parent | a2a250c7d07bcb80cefca9dd4a7ce57f41291334 (diff) | |
| download | bitcoin-cf095a53fcef8ad72e2f1177660ef50bc7e340ad.tar.xz | |
Move comment about BaseIndex::DB from TxIndex::DB
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| -rw-r--r-- | src/index/base.h | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/index/base.h b/src/index/base.h index 3fab810bb2..1063291480 100644 --- a/src/index/base.h +++ b/src/index/base.h @@ -21,6 +21,13 @@ class CBlockIndex; 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: |