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 Fixed a bug to prevent the DB-&gt;compact method specified with the DB_AUTO_COMMIT flag from acquiring too many locks. [#18072]
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 Fixed a bug that might cause DB-&gt;compact on a DB_BTREE database to get a spurious read lock on the metadata page.  If the database was opened non-transactionally the lock would get left behind. [#18257