Simon Willison’s Weblog

Optimal SQLite settings for Django (via) Giovanni Collazo put the work in to figure out settings to make SQLite work well for production Django workloads. WAL mode and a busy_timeout of 5000 make sense, but the most interesting recommendation here is "transaction_mode": "IMMEDIATE" to avoid locking errors when a transaction is upgraded to a write transaction.

Giovanni's configuration depends on the new "init_command" support for SQLite PRAGMA options introduced in Django 5.1alpha.