diff --git a/manifest b/manifest
index 21686af482..7a5ca50dcc 100644
--- a/manifest
+++ b/manifest
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-C Fix\sa\sproblem\swith\sa\sreturn\scode\sbeing\signored\sin\sinsertCell().\s(CVS\s6816)
-D 2009-06-25T16:11:05
+C Avoid\swriting\sthe\s8-byte\sjournal-header\smagic\suntil\sthe\sjournal-header\sis\ssynced.\sIn\spersistent\sjournal-mode,\sthis\sprevents\sany\sold\scontent\sthat\sfollows\san\sunsynced\sjournal-header\sfrom\sbeing\sinterpreted\sas\spart\sof\sthe\srollback\sjournal.\s(CVS\s6817)
+D 2009-06-26T07:12:07
 F Makefile.arm-wince-mingw32ce-gcc fcd5e9cd67fe88836360bb4f9ef4cb7f8e2fb5a0
 F Makefile.in 8b8fb7823264331210cddf103831816c286ba446
 F Makefile.linux-gcc d53183f4aa6a9192d249731c90dbdffbd2c68654
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ F src/os_common.h 8c61457df58f1a4bd5f5adc3e90e01b37bf7afbc
 F src/os_os2.c bed77dc26e3a95ce4a204936b9a1ca6fe612fcc5
 F src/os_unix.c b64129c296e480c2827606e206ea51bb30904626
 F src/os_win.c 725c38a524d168ce280446ad8761d731bc516405
-F src/pager.c 85cb38f0403881f827c30384c51a7a6e54c6d457
+F src/pager.c aff52317d450d0bdb93699f7213c09f51031c7e8
 F src/pager.h 5aec418bf99f568b92ae82816a1463400513726d
 F src/parse.y b6e99f4208a34eb83c62f20dd67f8d9058e86768
 F src/pcache.c 395f752a13574120bd7513a400ba02a265aaa76d
@@ -509,7 +509,7 @@ F test/randexpr1.tcl 40dec52119ed3a2b8b2a773bce24b63a3a746459
 F test/randexpr1.test 1084050991e9ba22c1c10edd8d84673b501cc25a
 F test/rdonly.test bd054831f8a3078e765a0657e247182486f0cb47
 F test/reindex.test 44edd3966b474468b823d481eafef0c305022254
-F test/rollback.test 1f70ab4301d8d105d41438a436cad1fc8897f5e5
+F test/rollback.test 73355ad4492ff9a3a31e61c7e5eb5e01a1de94ca
 F test/rowhash.test 97f56043ba11f0679920416c0cdbc72e5272267b
 F test/rowid.test 1c8fc43c60d273e6ea44dfb992db587f3164312c
 F test/rtree.test 55466a200af3591946c5da77ad5dbfbc1e5e05f9
@@ -626,7 +626,7 @@ F test/tkt3357.test 77c37c6482b526fe89941ce951c22d011f5922ed
 F test/tkt3419.test 1bbf36d7ea03b638c15804251287c2391f5c1f6b
 F test/tkt3424.test 61f831bd2b071bd128fa5d00fbda57e656ca5812
 F test/tkt3442.test 89d7b41a4ec4d9d9b40ab8575d648579fb13cb4f
-F test/tkt3457.test d311ecafbc9aaf876ac8e4a6a58ff2ee01739125
+F test/tkt3457.test edbf54b05cbe5165f00192becbd621038f1615e4
 F test/tkt3461.test 228ea328a5a21e8663f80ee3d212a6ad92549a19
 F test/tkt3472.test 98c7e54b8fef2b1266a552a66c8e5d88a6908d1d
 F test/tkt3493.test 1686cbde85f8721fc1bdc0ee72f2ef2f63139218
@@ -737,7 +737,7 @@ F tool/speedtest2.tcl ee2149167303ba8e95af97873c575c3e0fab58ff
 F tool/speedtest8.c 2902c46588c40b55661e471d7a86e4dd71a18224
 F tool/speedtest8inst1.c 293327bc76823f473684d589a8160bde1f52c14e
 F tool/vdbe-compress.tcl 672f81d693a03f80f5ae60bfefacd8a349e76746
-P 6e9140a729bd26dd102e603abf6ea16d67e8546e
-R 9a284a565af8f19e3d2c682d0105f4bb
+P bb5f1c01435dcc1ea056f0d149f750fa7812f652
+R 383a763ea1f6b28e78c47a340c8dfba5
 U danielk1977
-Z b70ba767168ad615a996157a1ab667b5
+Z f3d299840c7ab8a7d6b950df9de8e6fa
diff --git a/manifest.uuid b/manifest.uuid
index 7d2d33aeae..872627d0ab 100644
--- a/manifest.uuid
+++ b/manifest.uuid
@@ -1 +1 @@
-bb5f1c01435dcc1ea056f0d149f750fa7812f652
\ No newline at end of file
+a5ecffcf025da2fcb241e83c7bebc1095a3b51d6
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/pager.c b/src/pager.c
index ebf42ef048..608e3b7690 100644
--- a/src/pager.c
+++ b/src/pager.c
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 ** file simultaneously, or one process from reading the database while
 ** another is writing.
 **
-** @(#) $Id: pager.c,v 1.601 2009/06/22 05:43:24 danielk1977 Exp $
+** @(#) $Id: pager.c,v 1.602 2009/06/26 07:12:07 danielk1977 Exp $
 */
 #ifndef SQLITE_OMIT_DISKIO
 #include "sqliteInt.h"
@@ -757,7 +757,6 @@ static int writeJournalHdr(Pager *pPager){
   }
 
   pPager->journalHdr = pPager->journalOff = journalHdrOffset(pPager);
-  memcpy(zHeader, aJournalMagic, sizeof(aJournalMagic));
 
   /* 
   ** Write the nRec Field - the number of page records that follow this
@@ -783,8 +782,10 @@ static int writeJournalHdr(Pager *pPager){
   if( (pPager->noSync) || (pPager->journalMode==PAGER_JOURNALMODE_MEMORY)
    || (sqlite3OsDeviceCharacteristics(pPager->fd)&SQLITE_IOCAP_SAFE_APPEND) 
   ){
+    memcpy(zHeader, aJournalMagic, sizeof(aJournalMagic));
     put32bits(&zHeader[sizeof(aJournalMagic)], 0xffffffff);
   }else{
+    zHeader[0] = '\0';
     put32bits(&zHeader[sizeof(aJournalMagic)], 0);
   }
 
@@ -852,6 +853,7 @@ static int writeJournalHdr(Pager *pPager){
 */
 static int readJournalHdr(
   Pager *pPager,               /* Pager object */
+  int isHot,
   i64 journalSize,             /* Size of the open journal file in bytes */
   u32 *pNRec,                  /* OUT: Value read from the nRec field */
   u32 *pDbSize                 /* OUT: Value of original database size field */
@@ -877,12 +879,14 @@ static int readJournalHdr(
   ** SQLITE_DONE. If an IO error occurs, return an error code. Otherwise,
   ** proceed.
   */
-  rc = sqlite3OsRead(pPager->jfd, aMagic, sizeof(aMagic), iHdrOff);
-  if( rc ){
-    return rc;
-  }
-  if( memcmp(aMagic, aJournalMagic, sizeof(aMagic))!=0 ){
-    return SQLITE_DONE;
+  if( isHot || iHdrOff!=pPager->journalHdr ){
+    rc = sqlite3OsRead(pPager->jfd, aMagic, sizeof(aMagic), iHdrOff);
+    if( rc ){
+      return rc;
+    }
+    if( memcmp(aMagic, aJournalMagic, sizeof(aMagic))!=0 ){
+      return SQLITE_DONE;
+    }
   }
 
   /* Read the first three 32-bit fields of the journal header: The nRec
@@ -1977,7 +1981,7 @@ static int pager_playback(Pager *pPager, int isHot){
     ** it is corrupted, then a process must of failed while writing it.
     ** This indicates nothing more needs to be rolled back.
     */
-    rc = readJournalHdr(pPager, szJ, &nRec, &mxPg);
+    rc = readJournalHdr(pPager, isHot, szJ, &nRec, &mxPg);
     if( rc!=SQLITE_OK ){ 
       if( rc==SQLITE_DONE ){
         rc = SQLITE_OK;
@@ -2197,7 +2201,7 @@ static int pagerPlaybackSavepoint(Pager *pPager, PagerSavepoint *pSavepoint){
     u32 ii;            /* Loop counter */
     u32 nJRec = 0;     /* Number of Journal Records */
     u32 dummy;
-    rc = readJournalHdr(pPager, szJ, &nJRec, &dummy);
+    rc = readJournalHdr(pPager, 0, szJ, &nJRec, &dummy);
     assert( rc!=SQLITE_DONE );
 
     /*
@@ -2764,7 +2768,9 @@ static int syncJournal(Pager *pPager){
         ** of the nRec field of the most recently written journal header.
         ** This field will be updated following the xSync() operation
         ** on the journal file. */
-        i64 iNRecOffset = pPager->journalHdr + sizeof(aJournalMagic);
+	u8 zHeader[sizeof(aJournalMagic)+4];
+	memcpy(zHeader, aJournalMagic, sizeof(aJournalMagic));
+	put32bits(&zHeader[sizeof(aJournalMagic)], pPager->nRec);
 
         /* This block deals with an obscure problem. If the last connection
         ** that wrote to this database was operating in persistent-journal
@@ -2817,7 +2823,9 @@ static int syncJournal(Pager *pPager){
           if( rc!=SQLITE_OK ) return rc;
         }
         IOTRACE(("JHDR %p %lld %d\n", pPager, iNRecOffset, 4));
-        rc = write32bits(pPager->jfd, iNRecOffset, pPager->nRec);
+        rc = sqlite3OsWrite(
+            pPager->jfd, zHeader, sizeof(zHeader), pPager->journalHdr
+	);
         if( rc!=SQLITE_OK ) return rc;
       }
       if( 0==(iDc&SQLITE_IOCAP_SEQUENTIAL) ){
diff --git a/test/rollback.test b/test/rollback.test
index b526a62a05..93d12468dc 100644
--- a/test/rollback.test
+++ b/test/rollback.test
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 # caused by an ON CONFLICT ROLLBACK clause aborts any other pending
 # statements.
 #
-# $Id: rollback.test,v 1.10 2008/10/17 18:51:53 danielk1977 Exp $
+# $Id: rollback.test,v 1.11 2009/06/26 07:12:07 danielk1977 Exp $
 
 set testdir [file dirname $argv0]
 source $testdir/tester.tcl
@@ -114,6 +114,13 @@ if {$tcl_platform(platform) == "unix"
   fconfigure $fd -encoding binary -translation binary
   seek $fd $iOffset
   puts -nonewline $fd $zAppend
+
+  # Also, fix the first journal-header in the journal-file. Because the
+  # journal file has not yet been synced, the 8-byte magic string at the
+  # start of the first journal-header has not been written by SQLite.
+  # So write it now.
+  seek $fd 0
+  puts -nonewline $fd "\xd9\xd5\x05\xf9\x20\xa1\x63\xd7"
   close $fd
 
   # Open a handle on testA.db and use it to query the database. At one
diff --git a/test/tkt3457.test b/test/tkt3457.test
index b173afe2ee..71eb424640 100644
--- a/test/tkt3457.test
+++ b/test/tkt3457.test
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 #***********************************************************************
 # This file implements regression tests for SQLite library.
 #
-# $Id: tkt3457.test,v 1.2 2009/06/05 17:09:12 drh Exp $
+# $Id: tkt3457.test,v 1.3 2009/06/26 07:12:07 danielk1977 Exp $
 
 set testdir [file dirname $argv0]
 source $testdir/tester.tcl
@@ -49,6 +49,16 @@ do_test tkt3457-1.1 {
   file copy -force test.db bak.db
   file copy -force test.db-journal bak.db-journal
 
+  # Fix the first journal-header in the journal-file. Because the
+  # journal file has not yet been synced, the 8-byte magic string at the
+  # start of the first journal-header has not been written by SQLite.
+  # So write it now.
+  set fd [open bak.db-journal a+]
+  fconfigure $fd -encoding binary -translation binary
+  seek $fd 0
+  puts -nonewline $fd "\xd9\xd5\x05\xf9\x20\xa1\x63\xd7"
+  close $fd
+
   execsql COMMIT
 } {}