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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/libstore/local-store.cc b/src/libstore/local-store.cc
index 7bcbe3298..f5eaa9f5f 100644
--- a/src/libstore/local-store.cc
+++ b/src/libstore/local-store.cc
@@ -313,13 +313,13 @@ LocalStore::LocalStore(const Params & params)
throw Error(
"Your Nix store has a database in Berkeley DB format,\n"
"which is no longer supported. To convert to the new format,\n"
- "please upgrade Nix to version 0.12 first.");
+ "please use the original Nix version 0.12 first.");
if (curSchema < 6)
throw Error(
"Your Nix store has a database in flat file format,\n"
"which is no longer supported. To convert to the new format,\n"
- "please upgrade Nix to version 1.11 first.");
+ "please use the original Nix version 1.11 first.");
if (!lockFile(globalLock.get(), ltWrite, false)) {
printInfo("waiting for exclusive access to the Nix store...");
@@ -550,7 +550,12 @@ void LocalStore::openDB(State & state, bool create)
if (mode == "wal" ) {
/* persist the WAL files when the DB connection is closed.
* This allows for read-only connections without any write permissions
- * on the state directory to succeed on a closed database. */
+ * on the state directory to succeed on a closed database. Setting the
+ * journal_size_limit to 2^40 bytes results in the WAL files getting
+ * truncated to 0 on exit and limits the on disk size of the WAL files
+ * to 2^40 bytes following a checkpoint */
+ if (sqlite3_exec(db, "pragma main.journal_size_limit = 1099511627776;", 0, 0, 0) != SQLITE_OK)
+ SQLiteError::throw_(db, "setting journal_size_limit");
int enable = 1;
if (sqlite3_file_control(db, NULL, SQLITE_FCNTL_PERSIST_WAL, &enable) != SQLITE_OK)
SQLiteError::throw_(db, "setting persistent WAL mode");