Mnesia question

[Dan Gudmundsson]

Hi 

That doesn't sound good, can you email me your test, and I'll have a look
at it.

/Dan

Mickael Remond writes:
 > Hello,
 > 
 > I have encountered potentially strange behaviour with Mnesia, when the
 > changes applied to the database where made in a script-like fashion in a
 > short-lived program.
 > 
 > I had a program that was starting the database, then was inserting a
 > record in the database and last was stopping mnesia and the Erlang VM with
 > init:stop().
 > 
 > My record where not found in the database after a restart of the VM and
 > Mnesia. It where correctly written by my script however (I put a read and
 > print instruction to check).
 > 
 > I found that the record was in the log file in the database directory, but
 > was not replayed by Mnesia when restarted.
 > I thought that it might have to do with log threshold options (Dump log is
 > not triggered as the size of the transaction or the max time before dump
 > is not reached).
 > 
 > Finally adding a mnesia:dump_log instruction before stopping Mnesia in my
 > short lived script solve the problem.
 > 
 > I was wondering if this was the expected behaviour. I would have guessed
 > that Mnesia should have read the log on startup or that shutdown would
 > have dump the log.
 > 
 > I was using Erlang/OTP R10B-3.
 > 
 > Thank you for your feedback
 > 
 > -- 
 > Mickaël Rémond