well, it's true that it's this is checked in both LevelUP and again in LevelDOWN so it won't get through anyway; it probably doesn't matter so much when we remove the `== 1` case because you were doing `this._db[type]()` in there, if it's just a plain batch then it should be safe. Perhaps you could throw an oddball into a test just to make sure that the behaviour you expect is actually taking place.