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-rw-r--r--src/libstore/local-store.cc7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/libstore/local-store.cc b/src/libstore/local-store.cc
index 7bcbe3298..d92fafa1b 100644
--- a/src/libstore/local-store.cc
+++ b/src/libstore/local-store.cc
@@ -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");