From 14335e788f03ffdbd0540c20623eed9f1fc58de5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Gudmundsson <dgud@erlang.org>
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 18:24:39 +0200
Subject: [mnesia] Add possibility for implementation dependent storage options
 to create_table

---
 lib/mnesia/doc/src/mnesia.xml | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

(limited to 'lib/mnesia/doc/src/mnesia.xml')

diff --git a/lib/mnesia/doc/src/mnesia.xml b/lib/mnesia/doc/src/mnesia.xml
index 19ec70118f..20133cb6cb 100644
--- a/lib/mnesia/doc/src/mnesia.xml
+++ b/lib/mnesia/doc/src/mnesia.xml
@@ -812,6 +812,21 @@ mnesia:change_table_copy_type(person, node(), disc_copies)
               makes up a Mnesia table.
               </p>
           </item>
+          <item>
+            <p><c>{storage_properties, [{Backend, Properties}]</c>.
+	    Forwards additional properties to the backend storage.
+	    <c>Backend</c> can currently be <c>ets</c> or <c>dets</c> and
+	    <c>Properties</c> is a list of options sent to the backend storage
+	    during table creation. <c>Properties</c> may not contain properties
+	    already used by mnesia such as <c>type</c> or <c>named_table</c>.
+	    </p>
+	    <p>For example:</p>
+	    <code type="none">
+mnesia:create_table(table, [{ram_copies, [node()]}, {disc_only_copies, nodes()},
+			    {storage_properties,
+			     [{ets, [compressed]}, {dets, [{auto_save, 5000}]} ]}])
+	    </code>
+          </item>
           <item>
             <p><c>{type, Type}</c>, where <c>Type</c> must be
               either of the atoms <c>set</c>, <c>ordered_set</c> or
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