Seems reasonable but what if I stop application and then restart it for some reason? I want to retain all the data that will be collected in the application tables (some of them may be persistent).<br><br>Regards,<br>Kirill
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/16/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Sean Hinde</b> <<a href="mailto:sean.hinde@gmail.com">sean.hinde@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>On 16 Jun 2007, at 15:08, Kirill Zaborski wrote:<br><br>> What is the recommended way to do application setup in OTP? I mean<br>> what if my application requires some initialization steps before<br>> running?
E.g. it requires some mnesia tables created.<br>> As I understand for release upgrade I can do this using *.appup<br>> files in OTP Design Principles I see only example of process state<br>> modification is it OK to transform mnesia tables in code_change/3?
<br>> And what do I when I install my application first time?<br><br>I would suggest to define some record that all parts of your system<br>can use to define table definitions, then at system startup doing<br>something like:
<br><br>1. Find the list of all table definition records.<br>2. Attempt to create all tables.<br>3. Any that are already created (return {aborted,{already_exists,_}})<br>compare the fields and if different do a table transform.
<br><br>This way you not only get the tables created at startup, but you also<br>get auto upgrade.<br><br>You could do this during startup of one of your first applications.<br><br>Sean<br><br></blockquote></div><br>