[erlang-questions] Mnesia Fragmented Tables, del_table_copy

[Tessaro Alexej]

Thank you for your reply.

In my case the table is dynamically growing (by adding new fragments
when the existing ones reach some sort of threshold).

Cause the contained data have no critical relevance (but real-time
reading and writing times constraints), I thought to maintain ram only
copies with no replicas.

So, when a node disconnects from the cluster cloud, I would expect the
data it was containing to disappear from the cloud (and the requests
involving those records to fail).

I expected mnesia_frag system to detect not running mnesia nodes, thus
not considering them when calling mnesia activity functions on the whole
table.

Am I missing something? 

On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 14:45 -0200, Igor Ribeiro Sucupira wrote:
> I haven't looked at it in detail, but I know it doesn't make much
> sense to delete the second fragment (leaving no other copies of it) in
> a table that has 4 fragments. It would break your fragmented table
> (writing keys would not be possible in some cases).
> 
> Best regards.
> Igor.
> 
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Tessaro Alexej <atessaro@REDACTED> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have started two communicating mnesia nodes and created one fragmented
> > table with fragments stored in RAM only (no other replicas) and schema
> > stored on disk on both nodes:
> >
> > node1 : constResourceData_frag3 (ram), constResourceData_frag4 (ram),
> > schema (disk)
> >
> > node2 : constResourceData (ram), constResourceData_frag2 (ram), schema
> > (disk)
> >
> > Now, from node1, I tried to call
> > mnesia:del_table_copy(constResourceData_frag2, node2)
> >
> > but it fails saying:
> >
> > node1> Mnesia(node1): Last replica deleted in table
> > constResourceData_frag2
> > node1>{aborted,{no_exists,constResourceData_frag2,frag_properties,
> >                    frag_hash}}
> > node1> Mnesia(node1): Transaction {tid,75,<0.371.0>} calling
> > #Fun<mnesia_schema.15.79614902> with [] failed:
> >  {aborted,{no_exists,constResourceData_frag2,frag_properties,frag_hash}}
> >
> > Looking at the mnesia_schema.erl source code, I found that the failure
> > seems to happen when it tries to delete the "whole_table" in
> > make_delete_table/2 and it runs the following check:
> >
> > %% Check if it is a base table
> > nesia_frag:lookup_frag_hash(Tab),
> >
> > Why is my attempt of removing the fragment failing?
> >
> > My erlang version is R12B.
> >
> > Thank you
> >
> >
> >
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> 

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Tessaro Alexej, Volunia Italia

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