I was reading up on WAL mode this week and came across a mailing list where you asked for clarification on this same topic. That post helped me understand, than

I was reading up on WAL mode this week and came across a mailing list where you asked for clarification on this same topic. That post helped me understand, thanks for asking the question! The confusing thing here for me is that the majority of other PRAGMAs (that I know of) are per-request, so this one differs from that pattern