It's no problem for most users to enable WAL, here, since
there's only a single process doing both reading and writing
(unlike the read-only daemons). However, WAL doesn't work on
network filesystems, so it can't be enabled by default.
sqlite_use_immediate_transaction => 1,
});
$dbh->{sqlite_unicode} = 1;
- $dbh->do('PRAGMA journal_mode = TRUNCATE');
+
+ # TRUNCATE reduces I/O compared to the default (DELETE).
+ # Allow and preserve user-overridden WAL, but don't force it.
+ my $jm = $dbh->selectrow_array('PRAGMA journal_mode');
+ $dbh->do('PRAGMA journal_mode = TRUNCATE') if $jm ne 'wal';
+
create_tables($dbh);
$dbh;
}