[erlang-questions] list of updates in mnesia

[Igor Ribeiro Sucupira]

Hello.

Mnesia User's Guide might help in your decision:
http://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/mnesia/Mnesia_chap4.html

Good luck.
Igor.

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Pablo Platt <pablo.platt@REDACTED> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My erlang server sends an http request to several remote server every minute.
> The remote servers respond with a list of updates to user profiles and rosters.
> The erlang server needs to process the list of updates and apply it to the mneisa database.
>
> The updates might contain syntax errors or wrong info.
> For example, it is possible that the remote server will refer to a missing user id.
> It's not an e-commerce application so transactions are not critical.
>
> What is the best way to handle the list of updates?
> Do I need to use transactions when writing data to the mnesia table?
> Is it better to create one transaction for the whole list or one transaction per item?
> What is the risk in using dirty_write?
> Maybe it is better to use one process per list item so even if there are syntax errors the rest of the list will be used?
>
> Thanks


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