A page record deleted in a workspace is still available when overlaying it with BackendUtility::workspaceOL().

Example¶

• Page #1 exists in live workspace
• Page #1 gets deleted in test workspace, creating a pages record with pages.t3ver_state = 2 (VersionState::DELETE_PLACEHOLDER)

My custom backend code fetches a list of page UIDs and runs BackendUtility::workspaceOL() on them. The record of deleted page #1 does not get set to false as it is done when doing the same in the frontend with $GLOBALS['TSFE']->sys_page->versionOL.

How am I supposed to know that the page has been deleted when BackendUtility::workspaceOL() does not do that?

This problem should apply to v12 and v13 as well. I could not find any changelog entries.