Mnesia schema transaction

[Ulf Wiger]

Hi Rudolph,

You can use nmesia_schema:do_create_table/1 (which also
requires use of mnesia_schema:list2cs/1.)

Here's some sample code from one of my unfinished contribs:


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).

table_properties(Attrs, Opts) ->
     Nodes = mnesia:system_info(db_nodes),
     RemoveKeys = [disc_copies, ram_copies, disc_copies],
     Rest = [{K,V} || {K,V} <- Opts,
                      not(lists:member(K, RemoveKeys))],
     [{attributes, Attrs},
      {disc_only_copies, opt(disc_only_copies, Opts,  Nodes)},
      {ram_copies, opt(ram_copies, Opts,  [])},
      {disc_copies, opt(ram_copies, Opts,  [])}|Rest].

/Uffe

On Thu, 4 Mar 2004 12:50:55 +0100, Rudolph van Graan 
<rvg@REDACTED> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Previously Ulf Wiger posted about
> mnesia_schema:schema_transaction(fun() -> ...)
>
> This function is exported and usuable, however inside mnesia_schema, I
> found this code:
>
> create_table(TabDef) ->
>      schema_transaction(fun() -> do_multi_create_table(TabDef) end).
>
> Now, if I do create_table inside a schema_transaction, it aborts with
> "nested transaction" - obviously because the above call already runs it
> as a transaction. Now, there seems to be no other create_table function
> that I can use to achieve transactions here that I could find. Is it
> really necessary to update mnesia's code to get create_table to run
> inside a transaction or am I again missing the obvious?
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
>
> Rudolph van Graan



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Ulf Wiger, Senior System Architect
EAB/UPD/S

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