Deleting a large number of records from a mensia table

Valentin Micic valentin@REDACTED
Mon Nov 28 18:48:40 CET 2005


How about mnesia:activity with ets access context? Would it be possible to 
access select_delete mechanism then?

V.

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From: "Sean Hinde" <sean.hinde@REDACTED>
To: "Sebastian Bello" <sebastian@REDACTED>
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Subject: Re: Deleting a large number of records from a mensia table


Hi,

You can't. ets has the select_delete mechanism, but mnesia does not
export this to its own API.

Sean

On 28 Nov 2005, at 12:39, Sebastian Bello wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> how can I delete a large number of mnesia records -which match a  certain 
> criteria- without having to select them (to avoid a big  memory copy of 
> them)?
> Thanks,
>     Sebastian-
>
> PS: excuse me if this question has already been asked/answered
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