<div dir="ltr">From memory and without checking I believe those are delete markers for that record entry.<div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 2:25 PM, tom kelly <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ttom.kelly@gmail.com" target="_blank">ttom.kelly@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi list,<div><br></div><div>I've been examining an mnesia backup from one of our production machines using the traverse_backup function and have found some strange entries. In one fragmented set table (with no secondary indexes) where the record structure is meant to be {tab_name, key, field1, field2} there exist entries like: {tab_name, key}.</div><div>However I can't find the entries after loading the table fragment with mnesia:restore.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I've been trawling through our app to find where these might get created but have drawn a blank and have come to the provisional conclusion that they're an internal mnesia quirk.</div><div><br></div><div>Can any of the mnesia experts on the list confirm or deny? And if confirmed maybe provide a short explanation of their function to satisfy my curiosity?</div><div><br></div><div>Many thanks.</div><div><br></div><div>//TTom.</div><div><br></div></div>
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