Deleting a large number of records from a mensia table

[Sean Hinde]

Hi,

There is nothing to stop you deleting the records from a RAM only  
mnesia table with ets:select_delete directly. If you also hold things  
on disc then this will not help very much (the disc will not be  
updated).

Regards,
Sean

On 28 Nov 2005, at 17:48, Valentin Micic wrote:

> How about mnesia:activity with ets access context? Would it be  
> possible to access select_delete mechanism then?
>
> V.
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sean Hinde" <sean.hinde@REDACTED>
> To: "Sebastian Bello" <sebastian@REDACTED>
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> Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 3:24 PM
> Subject: Re: Deleting a large number of records from a mensia table
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> Hi,
>
> You can't. ets has the select_delete mechanism, but mnesia does not
> export this to its own API.
>
> Sean
>
> On 28 Nov 2005, at 12:39, Sebastian Bello wrote:
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>> Hi all,
>>
>> how can I delete a large number of mnesia records -which match a   
>> certain criteria- without having to select them (to avoid a big   
>> memory copy of them)?
>> Thanks,
>>     Sebastian-
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>> PS: excuse me if this question has already been asked/answered
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