RENAMING MNESIA TABES

[Chandrashekhar Mullaparthi]

Take a backup of the database and then do your export by traversing the
backup. The backup process is quite efficient and quick. The functions of
interest to you would be mnesia:backup and mnesia:traverse_backup - check
the user guide for mnesia as well - there is an example of traversing a
mnesia backup file. You can traverse the backup in a different mnesia node
as well.

Tip: when writing to your CSV file, dont write one line at a time. Write a
bunch of lines at a time. This will considerably speed up your export
process. 

cheers
Chandru

-----Original Message-----
From: Valentin [mailto:valentin@REDACTED]
Sent: 16 December 2002 10:52
To: Chandrashekhar Mullaparthi; erlang-questions@REDACTED
Subject: Re: RENAMING MNESIA TABES


We have a requirement to export some historical/log data from MNESIA into
ORACLE. The data in MNESIA table is short-lived, that is, once the data has
been exported, the MNESIA table is recreated (we find it much faster to
recreate a table than to use mnesia:clear_table/1).

At the time, the easiest way to achieve this was to run a single process
that will receive log messages and store them into MNESIA table. Once a day,
say, at midnight, the same process would export data into CSV file, whilst
any message  "posted" during this time will remain in the queue and will be
inserted once the export was completed... Some external process uploads such
a CSV file into the ORACLE.

This process has worked just fine so far, however, as it usually happens, we
have underestimated the traffic volumes, and I am not sure if the process
will cope with the load -- the export facility that I wrote is quite a slow
one. I've been looking for a simple work-around,  i.e. if  the table can be
renamed, I would have all the time in the world to do the export, etc.

Well, it's a back to the drawing board for me, I guess :-(

V.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Chandrashekhar Mullaparthi"
<Chandrashekhar.Mullaparthi@REDACTED>
To: "'Valentin'" <valentin@REDACTED>; <erlang-questions@REDACTED>
Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 10:28 AM
Subject: RE: RENAMING MNESIA TABES


> There isn't a way to rename a table. You'll have to create a new table,
copy
> the contents and delete the old table. But why do you want to do such a
> thing? What is the problem you're tackling?
>
> Chandru
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Valentin [mailto:valentin@REDACTED]
> Sent: 15 December 2002 13:14
> To: erlang-questions@REDACTED
> Subject: RENAMING MNESIA TABES
>
>
> Any idea how to rename a mnesia table? Consider the following scenario:
>
> 1) process P1 writes to table T1
> 2) table T1 is renamed to T2
> 3) process P1 fails to write while T1 is not available (new messages
(data)
> are accumulated in P1's queue while P1 retries to write to T1)
> 4) a new T1 is created
> 5) process P1 writes to T1
>
> I am worried that something like this is not possible, as it would
> complicate transactions, etc. Hope that I'm wrong, as it would make my
life
> so much simpler.
> I've been looking at fragmentation, but that doesn't seem to be a simple
> solution for (I hope) a simple problem.
>
> Valentin.



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