Fix protocol issues. Mnesia-4.4.19 could not communicate with to older nodes.

Own Id: OTP-9473

XML files have been corrected.

Own Id: OTP-9550 Aux Id: OTP-9541

Dump the log even if no transactions have been invoked on local node, otherwise the log will grow forever with decisions from the other nodes who have tables on disk. Thanks Marek Majkowski.

Own Id: OTP-9551

Use dedicated api for clear_table, i.e. instead of match_delete use delete_all_objects. Thanks KukHyun Lee.

Own Id: OTP-9558

Mnesia could crash if mnesia:add_table_index/2 was invoked before the table was loaded on all nodes.

Own Id: OTP-9285 Aux Id: seq11844

Add {majority, boolean()} per-table option.

With {majority, true} set for a table, write transactions will abort if they cannot commit to a majority of the nodes that have a copy of the table. Currently, the implementation hooks into the prepare_commit, and forces an asymmetric transaction if the commit set affects any table with the majority flag set. In the commit itself, the transaction will abort if it cannot satisfy the majority requirement for all tables involved in the transaction.(Thanks to Ulf Wiger)

Own Id: OTP-9304

Call chmod without the "-f" flag

"-f" is a non-standard chmod option which at least SGI IRIX and HP UX do not support. As the only effect of the "-f" flag is to suppress warning messages, it can be safely omitted. (Thanks to Holger Weiß)

Own Id: OTP-9170

Mnesia sometimes failed to update meta-information in large systems, which could cause table content to be inconsistent between nodes.

Own Id: OTP-9186 Aux Id: seq11728

Calling mnesia:first/1 on empty fragmented table works. Thanks Magnus Henoch.

Own Id: OTP-9108

If Mnesia detects that the network is not fully connected during start, Mnesia will not start until all nodes are reachable.

Own Id: OTP-9115 Aux Id: seq-11728

Fix issues reported by dialyzer.

Own Id: OTP-9107

Sometimes a 'log_header' record was added to tables when invoking mnesia:restore/2 with the option 'recreate_tables'. Thanks Vance Shipley.

Own Id: OTP-8960

Compiler warnings were eliminated.

Own Id: OTP-8855

Eliminated warnings for auto-imported BIF clashes.

Own Id: OTP-8840

Added mnesia:subscribe(activity) contributed by Bernard Duggan.

Own Id: OTP-8519

Transactions could be left hanging if a node went down when invoking mnesia:sync_transaction/[1,2]. Thanks Igor Ribeiro Sucupira.

Own Id: OTP-8402

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

Own Id: OTP-8406

The documentation is now built with open source tools (xsltproc and fop) that exists on most platforms. One visible change is that the frames are removed.

Own Id: OTP-8250

Fixed duplicate results with mnesia:index_read() on ordered_set tables. Reported by Sam Bobroff.

Fixed locking in mnesia:index_read() which now grabs a read table lock to ensure correctness, this may slow down the operation or block other processes trying to reach the same table.

Calling mnesia:dump_log() could crash mnesia, Reported by Igor Ribeiro Sucupira.

Own Id: OTP-8074

Mnesia crashed if a qlc query was running inside a transaction when mnesia stopped at another node. Thanks Teemu Antti-Poika.

Own Id: OTP-7968

Mnesia could crash when loading local_content tables.

Own Id: OTP-8002 Aux Id: seq11277

Minor (smp) optimizations.

Own Id: OTP-7928

mnesia:clear_table/1 crashed instead of returning {aborted,..} if it was called inside a transaction.

Own Id: OTP-7911

With bad timing several api functions could return or exit with a bad error message when mnesia was shutting down.

Own Id: OTP-7753 Aux Id: seq11179

mnesia:clear_table/1 cleared all nodes table content even if the table was local_content only type.

Own Id: OTP-7835

Disallowed match patterns ('_', and '$n') as argument to mnesia:delete_object/1 and friends.

Own Id: OTP-7524

Introduced a few new functions in Mnesia: mnesia:read/2, mnesia:first/3, mnesia:last/3, mnesia:prev/4, mnesia:next/4, mnesia_frag:first/1, mnesia_frag:last/1, mnesia_frag:prev/2, mnesia_frag:next/2.

Own Id: OTP-7625

mnesia:restore/2 aborted if a EXIT message appeared in the client message queue.

Own Id: OTP-7585 Aux Id: seq11046

mnesia:clear_table/1 does not require that all replicas of the table are available anymore.

Own Id: OTP-7466 Aux Id: seq11015

Mnesia did not garbage collect transaction decisions on disk based nodes if no transactions where made on the local node.

Own Id: OTP-7419

Table referred to by foreign key did not have node_pool properly cleaned up when a node was removed from the schema. Thanks Paul Mineiro.

Own Id: OTP-7340

Mnesia crashed and generated a core dump if a schema_transaction was running when mnesia stopped.

Own Id: OTP-7378 Aux Id: seq10964

It is now possible to delete a db node even when other disk resident nodes are down. Thanks Paul Mineiro.

Own Id: OTP-7383

Sticky locks could lead to hanging transactions.

Own Id: OTP-7205 Aux Id: seq10793

mnesia:snmp_get_next_index/2 didn't work with partial index keys. Argument checking is now done according to documentation, in functions mnesia:snmp_get_row/2, mnesia:snmp_get_mnesia_key/2 and mnesia:snmp_get_next_index/2. These functions now require that RowIndex is a list.

*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

Own Id: OTP-7208

Snmp index tables was not initialized correctly in mnesia-4.4.

Own Id: OTP-7170 Aux Id: seq10870

Rearranging fragmented tables is an O(N^2) operation.

Own Id: OTP-6300

Mnesia ignored the module argument to mnesia:restore/2. Thanks Paul Minerio.

Own Id: OTP-6981

Mnesia's snmp operations snmp_get_row/2, snmp_get_next_index/2 and snmp_get_mnesia_key/2 have been made context aware, i.e. inside a transaction they will compensate for table updates made in earlier in the same transaction. This might cause a performance drop if a lot of updates have been made before the invocation of these functions.

*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

Own Id: OTP-6856 Aux Id: seq10671

Introduced erlang:phash/2 as new default for fragmented tables. Already existing tables will continue to use whatever hash function they where using.

Own Id: OTP-6923

Introduced mnesia:is_transaction/0.

Own Id: OTP-6995 Aux Id: seq10812

Rearranging fragmented tables is an O(N^2) operation.

Own Id: OTP-6300