Generating unique ids in Mnesia

[Joel Reymont]

Would I call mnesia:foldl() to figure out the maximum sequence number  
and then create a new record with key seqnum + 1, all in the same  
transaction?

On Aug 18, 2005, at 4:40 PM, Joel Reymont wrote:

> Folks,
>
> I need to maintain a table of players in Mnesia and I would like to  
> assign players a unique id when they are added. Right now I  
> generate a tuple of {timestamp hash, pid hash} and then hash that  
> once more to get a unique id.
>
> Is there an easier way to do this in Mnesia? The ids can be  
> sequential or random, they just can't repeat themselves as the  
> table is a set. I guess I'm looking for something like a max  
> aggregator on a Mnesia column.