Index: liferea-1.4.26/src/db.c
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--- liferea-1.4.26.orig/src/db.c	2009-06-16 16:34:43.523633270 +0200
+++ liferea-1.4.26/src/db.c	2009-06-16 16:35:23.160133468 +0200
@@ -193,6 +193,18 @@
 	
 	sqlite3_extended_result_codes (db, TRUE);
 	
+	/* if no environment variable set, default to synchronous off */
+	int sync = 0;
+	char *csync = getenv ("LIFEREA_SYNCHRONOUS");
+	if (csync) 
+		sync = atoi(csync);
+	gchar *sql = sqlite3_mprintf ("pragma synchronous = %d;", sync);
+	gchar *err;
+	if (SQLITE_OK != sqlite3_exec(db, sql, NULL, NULL, &err))
+		debug1 (DEBUG_DB, "setting pragma synchronous failed: %s", err);
+	sqlite3_free (sql);
+	sqlite3_free (err);
+
 	if (initial) {
 		/* create info table/check versioning info */				   
 		schemaVersion = db_get_schema_version ();