[erlang-questions] Mnesia transactions and error handling good practices

[Daniel Luna]

On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Andreas Hillqvist wrote:
> By the way, what is the cost of nested transaction in mnesia?
> Would it be "better practice" to keep this archive and set operation
> within only on transaction?

The cost of a nested transaction is proportional to the size of both of 
the transactions.

We rewrote some code at Kreditor into using nested transactions (which is 
more readable), but had to throw it away.  A test which usually takes 
about 20-30 minutes on a desktop machine wasn't finished after 10 hours 
(when the test was aborted).

/Luna
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