Well, after all the preliminary work, this latest patch certainly looks clean now!
I read through the patch and it reads very well. The comments are clear and helpful. It applies cleanly to the current trunk, and derbyall was successful. +1 on derby-210-patch5-v1.diff Meanwhile, I noticed in John's message earlier today that he has been able to build a specialized test to stress test this area of the system: > I created a smaller stand-alone application "inspired by" the > really bad parts of the DOTS test John, is it worth incorporating this test code into the regression suite? thanks, bryan