This was wrong because:
- There was no reason to rollback name for item that will be deleted
  after query.
- name_length was not rolled back
- Changing real_item() doesn't work as it may be used many times in the
  same query

After removing all the old code and extending the test case, all the
related test cases passes.

Sanja and I concluded that the old code isn't needed anymore.  If it
still needed for some scenario not covered by our test system, it needs
to be coded in some other way, so better to remove the wrong code.