And waits for them. That's pointless.
StorageReplicatedMergeTree::allocateBlockNumber(
    const String & partition_id, const zkutil::ZooKeeperPtr & zookeeper, const String & zookeeper_block_id_path, const String & zookeeper_path_prefix) const
{
    String zookeeper_table_path;
    if (zookeeper_path_prefix.empty())
        zookeeper_table_path = zookeeper_path;
    else
        zookeeper_table_path = zookeeper_path_prefix;
    
    Coordination::Requests deduplication_check_ops;
    if (!zookeeper_block_id_path.empty())
    {
        deduplication_check_ops.emplace_back(zkutil::makeCreateRequest(zookeeper_block_id_path, "", zkutil::CreateMode::Persistent));
        deduplication_check_ops.emplace_back(zkutil::makeRemoveRequest(zookeeper_block_id_path, -1));
    }
    String block_numbers_path = fs::path(zookeeper_table_path) / "block_numbers";
    String partition_path = fs::path(block_numbers_path) / partition_id;
    if (!existsNodeCached(partition_path))
    {
        Coordination::Requests ops;