Re: [HACKERS] Re: SIGBUS in AllocSetAlloc & jdbc

Tatsuo Ishii wrote:

> > This is all clearly part of the large object mess that we were in before
> > you fixed large objects.
> >
> > Do whatever you think is best for the long term.  Large objects were so
> > terribly fragile in previous releases, we might as well advertise them
> > again as now working 100% of the time.  If the new behaviour changes
> > existing apps, that is OK if the new behaviour is superior.  They will
> > be thrilled to change their apps if the large object system now works
> > better.
> >
> > It would be different if the old system worked properly.
>
> I have changed lo_read/lo_write so that they run under same memory
> context as other LO calls.

Well, for the first time (for me) the blobtest.java now works correctly.

That would be Solaris 2.7, cvs checkout 19990511, jdk1.2.1_02.

Thank you all for the great work.

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