Transaction Commit

• Write commit record to log.

• All log records up to Xact’s lastLSN are flushed.

  • Guarantees that flushedLSN ³ lastLSN.
  • Note that log flushes are sequential, synchronous writes to disk.
  • Many log records per log page.

• Commit() returns.

• Write end record to log.

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