diff --git a/src/services/backend_script_api.js b/src/services/backend_script_api.js
index dadc40c6a7..c457bbaf67 100644
--- a/src/services/backend_script_api.js
+++ b/src/services/backend_script_api.js
@@ -426,6 +426,15 @@ function BackendScriptApi(currentNote, apiParams) {
      * @return {{syncVersion, appVersion, buildRevision, dbVersion, dataDirectory, buildDate}|*} - object representing basic info about running Trilium version
      */
     this.getAppInfo = () => appInfo
+
+    /**
+     * This object contains "at your risk" and "no BC guarantees" objects for advanced use cases.
+     *
+     * @type {{becca: Becca}}
+     */
+    this.__private = {
+        becca
+    }
 }
 
 module.exports = BackendScriptApi;
diff --git a/src/services/consistency_checks.js b/src/services/consistency_checks.js
index dbf4b44783..0731989c1f 100644
--- a/src/services/consistency_checks.js
+++ b/src/services/consistency_checks.js
@@ -367,26 +367,30 @@ class ConsistencyChecks {
                 }
             });
 
-        this.findAndFixIssues(`
-                    SELECT notes.noteId, notes.type, notes.mime
-                    FROM notes
-                      JOIN note_contents USING (noteId)
-                    WHERE isDeleted = 0
-                      AND isProtected = 0
-                      AND content IS NULL`,
-            ({noteId, type, mime}) => {
-                if (this.autoFix) {
-                    const note = becca.getNote(noteId);
-                    const blankContent = getBlankContent(false, type, mime);
-                    note.setContent(blankContent);
+        if (sqlInit.getDbSize() < 500000) {
+            // querying for "content IS NULL" is expensive since content is not indexed. See e.g. https://github.com/zadam/trilium/issues/2887
 
-                    this.reloadNeeded = true;
+            this.findAndFixIssues(`
+                        SELECT notes.noteId, notes.type, notes.mime
+                        FROM notes
+                                 JOIN note_contents USING (noteId)
+                        WHERE isDeleted = 0
+                          AND isProtected = 0
+                          AND content IS NULL`,
+                ({noteId, type, mime}) => {
+                    if (this.autoFix) {
+                        const note = becca.getNote(noteId);
+                        const blankContent = getBlankContent(false, type, mime);
+                        note.setContent(blankContent);
 
-                    logFix(`Note ${noteId} content was set to "${blankContent}" since it was null even though it is not deleted`);
-                } else {
-                    logError(`Note ${noteId} content is null even though it is not deleted`);
-                }
-            });
+                        this.reloadNeeded = true;
+
+                        logFix(`Note ${noteId} content was set to "${blankContent}" since it was null even though it is not deleted`);
+                    } else {
+                        logError(`Note ${noteId} content is null even though it is not deleted`);
+                    }
+                });
+        }
 
         this.findAndFixIssues(`
                     SELECT note_revisions.noteRevisionId
diff --git a/src/services/sql_init.js b/src/services/sql_init.js
index 013f736b7a..66bc98fe9b 100644
--- a/src/services/sql_init.js
+++ b/src/services/sql_init.js
@@ -178,7 +178,11 @@ dbReady.then(() => {
     setInterval(() => optimize(), 10 * 60 * 60 * 1000);
 });
 
-log.info("DB size: " + sql.getValue("SELECT page_count * page_size / 1000 as size FROM pragma_page_count(), pragma_page_size()") + " KB");
+function getDbSize() {
+    return sql.getValue("SELECT page_count * page_size / 1000 as size FROM pragma_page_count(), pragma_page_size()");
+}
+
+log.info(`DB size: ${getDbSize()} KB`);
 
 module.exports = {
     dbReady,
@@ -186,5 +190,6 @@ module.exports = {
     isDbInitialized,
     createInitialDatabase,
     createDatabaseForSync,
-    setDbAsInitialized
+    setDbAsInitialized,
+    getDbSize
 };