> This is OK for table files, unless someone's broken the code that will
> auto-initialize a zero page when it comes across one.
Hmmm, I don't see anything like auto-initialization in code -:(
Where did you put these changes?
> I had a note to myself saying that zeroed pages in indexes may not be
> OK, but I'm not sure if that's really a risk or not. btree, at least,
> never does any linear scans of an index file; it can only visit pages
> that are linked to by parent or sibling links. If we are careful that
> we init a btree page before we modify its sibling(s) and parent, we
> should be OK.
Should be covered by WALoging of newroot & split ops which only add
new pages.
Vadim