I tried running normal table ops(mnesia:write/1) within the schema
transaction. But the transaction aborts with {aborted, {no_exists,
TableName}} - which I think is understandable. I haven't read thru the code
- but I think schema changes are probably not committed until the schema
transaction is completed - which is why mnesia:write complains that it cant
find the table. Though I don't understand why schema transactions are
different from normal transactions. Maybe I'll go thru the code.....once I
get ccviewer installed and running!
Chandru
-----Original Message-----
From: Ulf Wiger [mailto:etxuwig@REDACTED]
Sent: 3 November 2000 08:53
To: Dan Gudmundsson
Cc: Chandrashekhar Mullaparthi; 'Erlang mailing list'
Subject: Re: Create table in a transaction
On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Dan Gudmundsson wrote:
>
>Sorry, but you can't do schema_transactions inside a normal transaction.
>
>schema_transaction's include
>create_table
>move_table_copy
>add_table_copy
>change_table_copy
>del_table
>transform_table
>..
>
>I got some requests on this but it is a lot of work do it rigth
>with current implementation..
>
>/Dan
But wouldn't it be possible to perform normal table updates from
within a schema transaction?
I haven't followed the complete thread, but it does seem as if
schema_transaction calls mnesia:transaction/1, and that mnesia_tm.erl
doesn't really care if schema transactions are combined with other
operations.
My mnesia_schema patch in the rdbms contrib exports
mnesia_schema:schema_transaction/1, and has a few hacks to support
multiple calls to write_table_property/2 within one schema
transaction. You could try calling normal table ops within
schema_transaction and see what happens.
Note, though, that schema_transaction can't be called from within a
transaction. If you want to try this, you'd also have to call
create_table a bit differently. Here's an example from some code I've
written:
initialise_class(Class) ->
{Attrs, TableProps, UserProps} = Class:describe(),
F = fun() ->
create_table(
Class, table_properties(Attrs, TableProps)),
rdbms:do_add_properties(UserProps, Class)
end,
mnesia_schema:schema_transaction(F).
create_table(Name, Properties) ->
Cs = mnesia_schema:list2cs([{name, Name}|Properties]),
mnesia_schema:do_create_table(Cs).
/Uffe
>Chandrashekhar Mullaparthi writes:
> >
> > I can't create a table within a transaction. Why is that?? A comment in
> > mnesia_schema.erl says that a "very special transaction is used when we
want
> > to manipulate the schema". Basically what I want to do is:
> >
> > * Do some checks
> > * Update table_1
> > * create table_2
> > * Make entries in table_2
> >
> > in one single transaction. I'm failing at step 3.
> >
> > tia,
> > Chandru
> >
>
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