volunteer wanted to write a few FAQ entries about Mnesia
Chris Pressey
cpressey@REDACTED
Fri Feb 21 23:05:11 CET 2003
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 11:53:02 +0100 (MET)
Ulf Wiger <etxuwig@REDACTED> wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Chris Pressey wrote:
>
> >Records are accessed by a single key (which may be unique
> >or duplicate) and there is no concept of a secondary key.
>
> Actually there is. You can define an index on a non-key
> attribute, and access records using mnesia:index_read/3 or
> index_match_object/2.
Oops! I meant there is no concept of an aggregate key, i.e. of using
multiple fields to identify a record.
-Chris
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