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by da_chicken 2869 days ago
Well, the historic one is, "because you need multiple concurrent data writers."

But, that's what this branch is supposed to be for. So now the reason is: "because you need multiple concurrent data writers from multiple processes." And it might also be "you need multiple concurrent data writers and care about your data enough to not risk loss in the event of a system crash or power failure" since it uses PRAGMA synchronous=OFF.