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[–] dan@upvote.au 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

WAL mode makes writes a lot faster, which is sufficient for a bunch of use cases. It's still not the right choice for write-heavy use cases, of course.

[–] RustyNova@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I'm not actually looking for the speed most of the time, but more about preventing partial writes, so I'm still using it