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Stonebraker & Hellerstein, eds.

Other Log-Related State

Transaction Table:

One entry per active Xact.
Contains XID, status (running/commited/aborted), and lastLSN.

Dirty Page Table:

One entry per dirty page in buffer pool.
Contains recLSN -- the LSN of the log record which first caused the page to be dirty.

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