[erlang-questions] ETS tables and pubsub

[akonsu]

thanks. yes, these links are what got me started. it looks like for my
problem, gproc (or maybe gp2) is a good solution.


2013/11/13 Mark DeVilliers <Mark.deVilliers@REDACTED>

>  Does this help -
> http://steve.vinoski.net/blog/2011/03/23/dont-lose-your-ets-tables/ and
> http://steve.vinoski.net/blog/2013/05/08/implementation-of-dont-lose-your-ets-tables/
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> Mark
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> *To:* akonsu
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> *Subject:* Re: [erlang-questions] ETS tables and pubsub
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> Why don't you use gproc?
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> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 2:38 AM, akonsu <akonsu@REDACTED> wrote:
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>  I have a pubsub system which has a single publisher process that
> maintains all its subscriber processes' Pid's in an ETS table.
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> The publisher monitors its subscribers and when the publisher receives
> DOWN message, it removes the subscriber Pid from the table.
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> The table entries are tuples of the form {MonitorRef, SubscriberPid}, and
> the MonitorRef is used as the key.
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> Now I would like to make sure that if the publisher dies, and gets
> restarted by its supervisor, the subscriber table is preserved. So I
> created a process that creates the ETS table, sets the table's heir to
> self(), and then gives away the table to the publisher.
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> The problem is that I do not know how to handle transfer of the table from
> the heir to the publisher:
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> when publisher receives the table, the table contains a list of tuples
> {MonitorRef, SubscriberPid}, but the MonitorRefs were created by the
> previous publisher instance, so when the new publisher receives
> ETS_TRANSFER it needs to monitor all these SubscriberPids again.
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> what is the best way to do it? Loop over all ETS entries, attach a monitor
> to each and reenter the new MonitorRefs into the table? This might be slow,
> no? Maybe my architecture can be improved? Any advice?
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> thanks
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> Konstantin
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