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by hyc_symas 23 days ago
The txnID was added to the page header to enable support for incremental backup. As a consequence, it's sufficient to compare a page's txnID to the current txnID to know if it's dirty or not, and spilled pages don't need a cleanup pass to clear their dirty bit on commit so commits of large txns are faster now.