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 Fixed a bug so that only one thread waits for the meta-page lock during internal initialization and broadcasts out the information rather than all threads waiting.  Removed the former retry code. [#17871]
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 Added a feature by which the DB-&gt;open method now allows the DB_CREATE flag on a replication client. It is ignored, but this allows a replication application to make one call that can work on either mast