WAL was hardcoded, and on network-backed storage — Azure App Service Linux,
SMB/NFS volumes on NAS and PaaS — SQLite documents it as unsafe, because the
coordination runs through the -shm file and mmap. Operators had no way out.
TREK_DB_JOURNAL_MODE and TREK_DB_SYNCHRONOUS now set both pragmas, defaulting
to today's behaviour. The mode lives in the file header, so all three
processes that open travel.db read the same configuration — the server,
reset-admin.js and migrate-encryption.ts, which used to hard-set WAL and would
have silently reverted a deliberate DELETE setup on the first key rotation.
An invalid value falls back and warns rather than refusing to start, and the
mode that actually took effect is read back and logged, so an operator can see
whether the setting landed.
Maurice