[erlang-questions] Atomically updating a record in ETS table

[Jesper Louis Andersen]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Martin Dimitrov <mrtndimitrov@REDACTED>wrote:

> For example, {key123, [a,b,c]}. Now I have to add to the list a new
> item, say 'd'. I have to select the record, add the new value to the
> list and replace the record with the new list. But how to do this
> atomically?
>

In this case, you may want to look at the "bag" table type, or perhaps
"duplicate bag". It will almost always be a better representation than
having to run the overhead of copying your list back and forth between a
process and ETS. Dmitry's suggestion is good as well. Serialize writes to
the table through a single process.


-- 
J.
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