FESco meeting summary for 20090507

[Tom Lane]

drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Tom Lane <tgl at redhat.com> wrote:
>> I've run into it twice in the past two months for apps used inside Red
>> Hat.  (Not developed inside Red Hat, I'm glad to say.)  This is out of a
>> sample of exactly two apps, since I avoid webapps where I can.  So I
>> admit I don't have a lot of data, but from here it looks like a problem.

> Well if our java implementation is broken it should be broken for 32 bit too.
> As for sun's java they have released a 64 bit plugin.

I'm not speaking of the JVM --- I'm talking about unportable
applications.  I suspect most of the problem is JNI code, but I cannot
claim to have attempted to debug it.

> So this should be no longer relevant.

Which part of "you're wrong" is not clear?  This is a very real issue.

			regards, tom lane