[erlang-questions] Stopping gen_server during processing

[Janos Hary]

All,

 

I have a gen_server process which periodically processes new records from a
database. I use timer:send_after to schedule gathering and processing new
records. I can gracefully stop the gen_server when it is waiting, but I need
a way to stop it during processing. Of cause I only want to stop it at
certain points of the processing, for example before starting to process the
next record. I need to group the records, so I cannot ask them one by one
from the db.

 

What is the preferred way of doing this?

 

Thanks for your answers in advance.

Janos  

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