MDEV-14126: Remove page_is_root()
The predicate page_is_root(), which was added in MariaDB Server 10.2.2, is based on a wrong assumption. Under some circumstances, InnoDB can transform B-trees into a degenerate state where a non-leaf page has no sibling pages. Because of this, we cannot assume that a page that has no siblings is the root page. This bug will be tracked as MDEV-19022. Because of the bug that may affect many InnoDB data files, we must remove and replace the wrong predicate. Using the wrong predicate can cause corruption. A leaf page is not allowed to be empty except if it is the root page, and the entire table is empty.
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