From a26cfc639c769057cfbb9d5be8954adedccfd707 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jack Robison <jackrobison@lbry.io>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 22:33:24 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] WAL

---
 lbry/wallet/database.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lbry/wallet/database.py b/lbry/wallet/database.py
index 49edaac79..bed88e3a6 100644
--- a/lbry/wallet/database.py
+++ b/lbry/wallet/database.py
@@ -27,7 +27,9 @@ reader_context: Optional[ContextVar[ReaderProcessState]] = ContextVar('reader_co
 
 
 def initializer(path):
-    reader = ReaderProcessState(sqlite3.connect(path).cursor())
+    db = sqlite3.connect(path)
+    db.executescript("pragma journal_mode=WAL;")
+    reader = ReaderProcessState(db.cursor())
     reader_context.set(reader)