[erlang-questions] mnesia question - fastest way to tell if ordered_set table is empty or not

[Chandru]

Have you tried this?

mnesia:table_info(Table_name, size).

Chandru

On 16 June 2013 20:14, Jonathan Leivent <jleivent@REDACTED> wrote:

> What is the fastest way, avoiding locking, to tell if an ordered_set
> mnesia table is empty or not?  I'm assuming that if the table is not an
> ordered set, then:
>
>   mnesia:activity(ets, fun mnesia:first/1, [Table]) == '$end_of_table'
>
> is the fastest.  However, if the table is an ordered set, this seems like
> it could take O(logN) time.
>
> Would this be faster?:
>
>  mnesia:activity(ets, fun mnesia:table_info/2, [Table, size]) == 0
>
> Is there a faster alternative?
>
> -- Jonathan
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