Index: src/pager.c
==================================================================
--- src/pager.c
+++ src/pager.c
@@ -4641,10 +4641,13 @@
     }
     if( rc!=SQLITE_OK ){
       sqlite3DbFree(0, zPathname);
       return rc;
     }
+  }else{
+    /* a temporary or transient database */
+    szPageDflt = SQLITE_DEFAULT_TEMP_PAGE_SIZE;
   }
 
   /* Allocate memory for the Pager structure, PCache object, the
   ** three file descriptors, the database file name and the journal 
   ** file name. The layout in memory is as follows:

Index: src/sqliteLimit.h
==================================================================
--- src/sqliteLimit.h
+++ src/sqliteLimit.h
@@ -161,10 +161,17 @@
 #endif
 #if SQLITE_DEFAULT_PAGE_SIZE>SQLITE_MAX_PAGE_SIZE
 # undef SQLITE_DEFAULT_PAGE_SIZE
 # define SQLITE_DEFAULT_PAGE_SIZE SQLITE_MAX_PAGE_SIZE
 #endif
+#ifndef SQLITE_DEFAULT_TEMP_PAGE_SIZE
+# define SQLITE_DEFAULT_TEMP_PAGE_SIZE 1024
+#endif
+#if SQLITE_DEFAULT_TEMP_PAGE_SIZE>SQLITE_MAX_PAGE_SIZE
+# undef SQLITE_DEFAULT_TEMP_PAGE_SIZE
+# define SQLITE_DEFAULT_TEMP_PAGE_SIZE SQLITE_MAX_PAGE_SIZE
+#endif
 
 /*
 ** Ordinarily, if no value is explicitly provided, SQLite creates databases
 ** with page size SQLITE_DEFAULT_PAGE_SIZE. However, based on certain
 ** device characteristics (sector-size and atomic write() support),