mnesia:create_table in transaction?

[Shawn Pearce]

Wow, so mnesia can do table creation in a transaction.  This works
nicely for non-fragmented tables.  If a table has a fragment, the
call doesn't seem to be exported; though you could build the fragments
by duplicating the work yourself.

Fortunately I'm not using fragments, so this works just fine.  I wonder
why its not more documented?


Ulf Wiger <ulf.wiger@REDACTED> wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 23:08:38 -0500, Shawn Pearce <spearce@REDACTED> 
> wrote:
> 
> >Is the following not allowed?
> >
> >mnesia:transaction(fun() ->
> >	mnesia:create_table(....)
> >end).
> >
> >as mnesia:create_table/2 is returning {aborted, nested_transaction}.
> >
> >I just thought I'd create all of my tables in a single transaction,
> >in case one fails to create.  Apparently its not supported.
> >Understandable, as very few databases allow table creation within
> >transactions.  I just thought it was possible in Mnesia.
> 
> In mnesia_schema.erl, you will find some (undocumented) functions:
> 
> mnesia_schema:schema_transaction(
>    fun() ->
>       do_create_table(mnesia_schema:list2cs([{name,Name}|Opts])),
>       ...
>    end).
> 
> 
> /Uffe
> -- 
> Ulf Wiger
> 

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