[erlang-questions] How to break out from mnesia transaction?

[attila.rajmund.nohl@REDACTED]

On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Fredrik Thulin wrote:

> attila.rajmund.nohl@REDACTED wrote:
>> Hello!
>> 
>> I have to implement function a() which have to call function b().
>> Function a() is always called from a mnesia transaction, while function
>> b() can't be called from a mnesia transaction. How can I solve this
>> problem elegantly? My idea is start a process from a(), send a message
>> to the process, which in turn will call b() (it's now outside of the
>> transaction, right?) and when b() returns, the process sends back a
>> message to a(). Is there a simpler way to solve the problem?
>>
>>  				Bye,NAR
>
> If you have something that can't run inside a transaction, you can't run it 
> inside a transaction.
>
> Have the transaction return a value that makes the code that invoked the 
> transaction invoke b() when the transaction has completed.

Unfortunately I can't change neither b() (to make it run in a
transaction) nor the code that calls a() (to not use transaction or
handle a special return value).

 				Bye,NAR
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