Programming Erlang, 2nd Edition

Creating an ETS Table

You create ETS tables by calling ets:new. The process that creates the table is called the owner of the table. When you create the table, it has a set of options that cannot be changed. If the owner process dies, space for the table is automatically deallocated. You can delete the table by calling ets:delete.

The arguments to ets:new are as follows:

-spec ets:new(Name, [Opt]) -> TableId

Name is an atom. [Opt] is a list of options, taken from the following:

set | ordered_set | bag | duplicate_bag

This creates an ETS table of the given type (we talked about these earlier).

private

This creates a private table. Only the owner process can read and write this table.

public

This creates a public table. Any process that knows the ...