[erlang-questions] Re: How to reduce the repetitious code in create mnesia table?

[Ulf Wiger]

Magnus Henoch wrote:
> 钱晓明 <kyleqian@REDACTED> writes:
> 
>> Is there any way I can do to reduce the repetitious code? I have
>> tried defining a new function accepting the name of record to do the same
>> thing above, but can not compile code because of record_info.
> 
> You could do it with a macro.  Something like:
> 
> -define(CHECK_CREATE_TABLE(Name, Attrs),
>         case mnesia:create_table(Name, [{attributes, record_info(fields, Name)}|Attrs]) of
>             {atomic, ok} -> ok;
>             {aborted, {already_exists, Name}} -> ok
>         end).

Having spent far too much time digging into mnesia internals, I prefer
to do it this way:

mktab(Name, Opts) ->
    mnesia_schema:do_create_table(
       mnesia_schema:list2cs([{name,Name}|Opts])).

mnesia_schema:schema_transaction(
    fun() ->
      mktab(t1, [{disc_copies, ...},...]),
      mktab(t2, [{ram_copies, ...},...]),
      ...
    end)

No need for lots of checks, and all tables are created, or
none are, which is usually what you want.

And, no, this isn't documented.

BR,
Ulf W

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