[erlang-questions] limit on ets:select/3

[Henning Diedrich]

I tried a couple of searches for a bit, looks like No to me.

Just for curiosity, what is the use of the limit you tried?

Henning

Ulf Wiger wrote:
>
> By chance, I stumbled upon this particular limitation in ets:select/3:
>
> ** exception exit: badarg
>      in function  ets:select/3
>         called as ets:select(16400,[{{'$1'},[],['$1']}],628091364)
>
> It seems as if the upper bound for the select limit is 134217727,
> that is, no bignums accepted.
>
> It's not a practical problem in my case, and I can feel that it's
> justified, but is it documented anywhere?
>
> BR,
> Ulf W