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| author | Sverker Eriksson <[email protected]> | 2019-01-22 12:22:37 +0100 |
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| committer | Sverker Eriksson <[email protected]> | 2019-01-22 12:22:37 +0100 |
| commit | 71c276be5d0a4bf60158137ae3c2be970216429b (patch) | |
| tree | ea1e772ad7440980eb31e7c53ca286518a641c7c /lib/mnesia/doc/src | |
| parent | 4940eef4e68e55f637c3addd40588d2733395a4a (diff) | |
| parent | 9ab651e04c2e56bcd700288e01a73b601ec1d469 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/lib/mnesia/doc/src/mnesia.xml b/lib/mnesia/doc/src/mnesia.xml index 94f1af34bf..11b0b8e987 100644 --- a/lib/mnesia/doc/src/mnesia.xml +++ b/lib/mnesia/doc/src/mnesia.xml @@ -2077,6 +2077,13 @@ mnesia:create_table(employee, <fsummary>Starts a local Mnesia system.</fsummary> <desc> <marker id="start"></marker> + <p>Mnesia startup is asynchronous. The function call + <c>mnesia:start()</c> returns the atom <c>ok</c> and then + starts to initialize the different tables. Depending on the + size of the database, this can take some time, and the + application programmer must wait for the tables that the + application needs before they can be used. This is achieved + by using the function <c>mnesia:wait_for_tables/2</c>.</p> <p>The startup procedure for a set of Mnesia nodes is a fairly complicated operation. A Mnesia system consists of a set of nodes, with Mnesia started locally on all |