Merge branch 'is/mnesia-send-compressed' into ccase/r13b04_dev

* is/mnesia-send-compressed:
  Add option to compress data when copying tables between Mnesia nodes

OTP-8406  Igor Ribeiro Sucupira added the option to compress data when
          copying tables between Mnesia nodes.

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/lib/mnesia/doc/src/mnesia.xml b/lib/mnesia/doc/src/mnesia.xml
index 3484cd104a..07f9fce8c7 100644
--- a/lib/mnesia/doc/src/mnesia.xml
+++ b/lib/mnesia/doc/src/mnesia.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 <erlref>
   <header>
     <copyright>
-      <year>1996</year><year>2009</year>
+      <year>1996</year><year>2010</year>
       <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
     </copyright>
     <legalnotice>
@@ -13,12 +13,12 @@
       compliance with the License. You should have received a copy of the
       Erlang Public License along with this software. If not, it can be
       retrieved online at http://www.erlang.org/.
-    
+
       Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS"
       basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See
       the License for the specific language governing rights and limitations
       under the License.
-    
+
     </legalnotice>
 
     <title>mnesia</title>
@@ -3045,6 +3045,17 @@ raise(Name, Amount) ->
           </p>
       </item>
       <item>
+        <p><c>-mnesia send_compressed Level</c> specifies the level of
+          compression to be used when copying a table from the local node to
+          another one. The default level is 0.
+          </p>
+        <p><c>Level</c> must be an integer in the interval [0, 9], with 0
+          representing no compression and 9 representing maximum compression.
+          Before setting it to a non-zero value, make sure the remote nodes
+          understand this configuration.
+          </p>
+      </item>
+      <item>
         <p><c>-mnesia schema_location Loc</c> controls where
           Mnesia will look for its schema. The parameter
           <c>Loc</c> may be one of the following atoms: </p>