I've been thinking about the implementation of B-trees, and in particular, how freed disk blocks are actually released. Thee is no problem, of course, if the freed blocks are always at the frontier of allocated space, but it's not quite obvious to me that this is the case. Deleting a single record doesn't seem too bad because the slots are always "filled in", but I have a hard time picturing a bulk delete in action.
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