Index: liferea-1.6.0~rc6/src/db.c
===================================================================
--- liferea-1.6.0~rc6.orig/src/db.c	2009-07-14 11:20:51.748017539 +0200
+++ liferea-1.6.0~rc6/src/db.c	2009-07-14 11:27:04.408017017 +0200
@@ -172,6 +172,17 @@
 	
 	sqlite3_extended_result_codes (db, TRUE);
 	
+	char *sync = getenv ("LIFEREA_SYNCHRONOUS");
+	if (sync)
+	{
+		gchar *err;
+		gchar *sql = sqlite3_mprintf ("pragma synchronous = %d;", atoi(sync));
+		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);
+	}
+
 	/* create info table/check versioning info */				   
 	schemaVersion = db_get_schema_version ();
 	debug1 (DEBUG_DB, "current DB schema version: %d", schemaVersion);