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Add small note and link to PostgreSQL usage topic

Robert Kaussow 2020-10-05 23:14:39 +02:00
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Running-without-WAL-enabled.md

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> WAL is an SQLite only setting and has no effect with Postgres or MySQL.
By default during the startup `bitwarden_rs` will try to enable [WAL](https://sqlite.org/wal.html) for the DB. Adding this improves performance and in the past helped preventing failed requests under some circumstances.
## Reasons to turn WAL off
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* Some filesystems don't support WAL - this is especially true for network filesystems. If you're using such filesystem, the service will fail to start with `Failed to turn on WAL` error message.
* The database requires sqlite version `3.7.0` or newer, so if you for any reason (for example backups) require to access the DB directly with some other tool that cannot be updated, you might need to disable WAL.
* You are [using the MySQL backend](https://github.com/dani-garcia/bitwarden_rs/wiki/Using-the-MySQL-Backend)
* You are [using the PostgreSQL backend](https://github.com/dani-garcia/bitwarden_rs/wiki/Using-the-PostgreSQL-Backend)
* One of the [disadvantages described here](https://sqlite.org/wal.html#advantages) affects you
## How to turn WAL off