How to prevent a page from being fetched via API while it's deleting?

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Occasionally we see an error which leads me to believe the site is trying to serve a page while (due to asynchronous background cron) it's being deleted.  This particular page has around 100 fields, so page delete is foreach-ing across the fields.  Site is on innodb.   Has anyone ever wrapped delete in a transaction or anything to guard against this?

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25 minutes ago, bracketfire said:

Has anyone ever wrapped delete in a transaction or anything to guard against this?

No, but have you tried to set the page status to be unpublished, save it, then delete it?

[bracketfire 18]

This is a great idea, we don't really use the publish/unpublished thing for these pages, but maybe a solution right under me nose 🙂  Thanks!