lib/db: Keep metadata better in sync (ref #6335) (#6337)

This adds metadata updates to the same write batch as the underlying
file change. The odds of a metadata update going missing is greatly
reduced.

Bonus change: actually commit the transaction in recalcMeta.

lib/db/backend/backend.go

@@ -48,10 +48,15 @@ type ReadTransaction interface {
 // purposes of saving memory when transactions are in-RAM. Note that
 // transactions may be checkpointed *anyway* even if this is not called, due to
 // resource constraints, but this gives you a chance to decide when.
+//
+// Functions can be passed to Checkpoint. These are run if and only if the
+// checkpoint will result in a flush, and will run before the flush. The
+// transaction can be accessed via a closure. If an error is returned from
+// these functions the flush will be aborted and the error bubbled.
 type WriteTransaction interface {
 	ReadTransaction
 	Writer
-	Checkpoint() error
+	Checkpoint(...func() error) error
 	Commit() error
 }
 

lib/db/backend/leveldb_backend.go

@@ -150,8 +150,8 @@ func (t *leveldbTransaction) Put(key, val []byte) error {
 	return t.checkFlush(dbFlushBatchMax)
 }
 
-func (t *leveldbTransaction) Checkpoint() error {
-	return t.checkFlush(dbFlushBatchMin)
+func (t *leveldbTransaction) Checkpoint(preFlush ...func() error) error {
+	return t.checkFlush(dbFlushBatchMin, preFlush...)
 }
 
 func (t *leveldbTransaction) Commit() error {
@@ -167,10 +167,15 @@ func (t *leveldbTransaction) Release() {
 }
 
 // checkFlush flushes and resets the batch if its size exceeds the given size.
-func (t *leveldbTransaction) checkFlush(size int) error {
+func (t *leveldbTransaction) checkFlush(size int, preFlush ...func() error) error {
 	if len(t.batch.Dump()) < size {
 		return nil
 	}
+	for _, hook := range preFlush {
+		if err := hook(); err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+	}
 	return t.flush()
 }