[erlang-questions] mnesia: composite keys?

[Peter Sabaini]

On Saturday 10 January 2009 00:02:39 David King wrote:
> > Is tuples as keys common practice or A Really Bad Idea(tm)?
>
> The table
>
> line_item :: {order_no,item_no} -> {cost, quantity, comment}
>
> should work just fine, the major downside would be that while there's
> an automatic index on the tuple {order_no,item_no}, and you can make
> an index on 'cost' or 'quantity', you can't make an index on
> 'order_no' or 'item_no' (because they aren't really fields), so it
> makes asking for all of the items from a given 'order_no' a little
> harder

Yep, I thought so -- but this won't be an issue for my app. 

Thanks, all.
peter.

> You could cheat by copying the 'order_no' or 'item_no' into the record
> and making an index on that, but you'd have to maintain that in the
> application

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