Suggestion: New table iterators
Bjorn Gustavsson
bjorn@REDACTED
Thu Oct 19 14:03:37 CEST 2000
In the first version of the fold function, which we plan to release as
a patch for R7B, we will just encapsulate existing functionality in an
iterator. We will use safe_fixtable / fixtable, but we will not add any new
locking mechanims to ets or dets.
/Björn
Sean Hinde <Sean.Hinde@REDACTED> writes:
> I'd like to add my support for iterators over ets/dets/mnesia.
>
> At the moment writing a safe iterator over an mnesia table is not obvious if
> you want to also have concurrent updates. Apart from anything else there
> appears to be no guarantee that a table will not be re-hashed during the
> iteration - even in a transaction.
>
> If you want to delete stuff during the iteration it is even less obvious how
> to do this safely and simply. Building a list of stuff to be deleted later
> can chew up masses of memory..
>
> Sean
>
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