Removed a quadratic behavior in startup. This change implies that backend plugins (if used) must be set when the schema is created or via configuration parameters before mnesia is started.

Own Id: OTP-14829 Aux Id: ERIERL-84

Bad timing could crash mnesia after a checkpoint was deactivated and reactivated with the same checkpoint name on different tables.

Own Id: OTP-14841 Aux Id: ERIERL-113

Fix backup error handling, the real failure reason was not returned.

Own Id: OTP-14776 Aux Id: ERIERL-103

General Unicode improvements.

Own Id: OTP-14462

Removed the wrapping of select continuations in extension plugin handling. This might require the user to rewrite user backend plugin if used.

*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

Own Id: OTP-14039

Fixed crash in checkpoint handling when table was deleted during backup.

Own Id: OTP-14167

A continuation returned by mnesia:select/[14] should be reusable in different, non-transactional activities.

Own Id: OTP-13944 Aux Id: PR-1184

Fixed crash when calling block_table multiple times. Could happen when having locks for a long time and restarting mnesia.

Own Id: OTP-13970 Aux Id: Seq-13198

Change mnesia_tm process to have off-heap messages since mnesia_tm can be the receiver of many non-synchronized message from other nodes.

Own Id: OTP-14074

Correct some minor documentation issues.

Own Id: OTP-13891

Added experimental external backend plugin api. This adds the possibility for the user to write other storage backends for data, for example by using shared memory or ram-cached disk storage.

The plugin api may change in future versions after being battle tested.

Own Id: OTP-13058

Mnesia transactions could hang while waiting on a response from a node who had stopped.

Own Id: OTP-13423

Avoid deadlock possibility in mnesia:del_table_copy/2

Own Id: OTP-13284

Fixed a process and file descriptor leak in mnesia:restore/2.

Own Id: OTP-13025 Aux Id: seq12957

Improved index updates to avoid a timing glitch in dirty_index_read.

Own Id: OTP-12972

Mnesia's dirty functions did not always exit with {aborted, Reason} as documented when an error occurred.

Own Id: OTP-12714

Consider file descriptors limits (emfile) as a fatal error and do not delete log files. Previously the error was seen as a corrupted disk and the log files deleted which caused data loss.

Own Id: OTP-12807

Make Mnesia DCD dump behavior at start up optional, when turned off mnesia loads large disc_copies tables faster.

Own Id: OTP-12481

Fixed race condition in protocol negotiation.

Own Id: OTP-12473

Grammar corrections. (Thanks to Derek Brown)

Own Id: OTP-12400

Fixed a spelling mistake in mnesia documentation.

Own Id: OTP-12278

Matching data with mnesia:match_object/1 did not work as expected in some cases, when data was written in the same transaction before the matching was invoked.

Own Id: OTP-12304 Aux Id: Seq12745

Various logging fixes, including: Add run queue index to the process dump in crash dumps.
Add thread index to enomem slogan when crashing.
Remove error logger message for sending messages to old instances of the same node.

Own Id: OTP-12115

Fixed a race which could make create_table fail if a node was going down during the transaction.

Own Id: OTP-12124 Aux Id: seq12694

Force load table could hang when a node went away during start up.

Own Id: OTP-11948 Aux Id: seq12585

The time for inserting locks for a transaction with large number of locks is reduced significantly.

Own Id: OTP-11981

Some local implementations of removing the last element from a list are replaced by lists:droplast/1. Note that this requires at least stdlib-2.0, which is the stdlib version delivered in OTP 17.0. (Thanks to Hans Svensson)

Own Id: OTP-11678

Application upgrade (appup) files are corrected for the following applications:

asn1, common_test, compiler, crypto, debugger, dialyzer, edoc, eldap, erl_docgen, et, eunit, gs, hipe, inets, observer, odbc, os_mon, otp_mibs, parsetools, percept, public_key, reltool, runtime_tools, ssh, syntax_tools, test_server, tools, typer, webtool, wx, xmerl

A new test utility for testing appup files is added to test_server. This is now used by most applications in OTP.

(Thanks to Tobias Schlager)

Own Id: OTP-11744

To prevent a race condition if there is a short communication problem when node-down and node-up events are received. They are now stored and later checked if the node came up just before mnesia flagged the node as down. (Thanks to Jonas Falkevik )

Own Id: OTP-11497

Added mnesia:sync_log/0 to explicit sync mnesias transaction log.

Own Id: OTP-11729

Fixed a race in mnesia which could cause hanging transaction when sticky locks had been used. Thanks janchochol.

Own Id: OTP-11375

Fixed dirty_update_counter which could return ok, thanks Anton Ryabkov.

Own Id: OTP-11485

Fix timing issues in checkpoint creation.

Own Id: OTP-10957

Fixed a problem where the fallback BUP file is removed when calling mnesia:uninstall_fallback and mnesia is not started.

Own Id: OTP-11241

If mnesia:clear_table/2 was called during a table load on that table, the schema record was written to the table instead of clearing table.

Own Id: OTP-11030 Aux Id: seq12267

Optimize index creation for Mnesia set tables. Thanks to Nick Marino.

Own Id: OTP-11103

Use chained send_after instead of send_interval, to make decrease the number of messages sent after a sleep (Thanks to James Wheare)

Own Id: OTP-10636

Fix format of mnesia overload message (Thanks to Ahmed Omar)

Own Id: OTP-10639

Added a general framework for executing benchmarks of Erlang/OTP. Benchmarks for the Erlang VM and mnesia have been incorporated in the framework.

For details about how to add more benchmarks see $ERL_TOP/HOWTO/BENCHMARKS.md in the source distribution.

Own Id: OTP-10156

Where necessary a comment stating encoding has been added to Erlang files. The comment is meant to be removed in Erlang/OTP R17B when UTF-8 becomes the default encoding.

Own Id: OTP-10630

Remove support for the query keyword and query expressions. Thanks to Loïc Hoguin.

Own Id: OTP-10729

Add tests showing that trying to delete non-existing object may corrupt the

In case of bag tables, trying to delete a non-existing object leads to the index becoming corrupt. This happens if the non-existing object we try to delete happens to share its key and index field value with a single existing object in the table. Result: The index entry corresponding to the existing object is removed.

Prevent index from being corrupted if a nonexistent item is deleted

We have to ensure that we actually delete the last object with a given (key, index) pair before removing the index. Thanks to Bartlomiej Puzon

Own Id: OTP-10220

Returns the same value for mnesia_loader:disc_load_table/2 as mnesia_loader:net_load_table/4 if a table copy can not be found. (Thanks to Uwe Dauernheim)

Own Id: OTP-10015

Improved table lock algorithm.

Own Id: OTP-9890

Reduce calls to phash in key_to_frag_number

Original code calls phash 1..2 times, based on which fragment the hashed key targets and how many fragments exist. New code always calls phash only once.

Add mnesia_frag_hash test (Thanks to Philip Robinson)

Own Id: OTP-9722

Fixed a sticky lock bug which caused mnesia:read(Tab, Key, write) return undefined.

Own Id: OTP-9786

Use the synchronous log_terms instead of alog_terms in mnesia_log:ets2dcd()

This avoids the situation where mnesia could dump a very large ets table in its entirety into the message queue of the disk_log process, causing memory blowup and choking the disk logger. (Thanks to Richard Carlsson)

Own Id: OTP-9804

Implemented a new option to mnesia:create_table/2 which allows the user to assign 'ets' and 'dets' options not available in mnesia.

Own Id: OTP-8970

Fix deadlock in mnesia:del_table_copy/2.

Own Id: OTP-9689 Aux Id: seq11927

Allow schema operations when using different mnesia versions.

Own Id: OTP-9657 Aux Id: seq11926

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