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One, One database record!
Two, Two database record!
Muahahaha!

By default, when using datasources with JBoss, it does a count to validate a connection, both on creation and when it is requested from the connection pool.  It looks something like:
select count(*) from x
Now, this can take take a while when working with tables containing 1.8 million rows and [...]

A coworker and I discovered an issue with jboss’ run.sh (which starts the app server).  The problem lies in different flavours of unix (or unix-like) shells returning different values for wait.
The relevant code is:

# Wait until the background process exits
WAIT_STATUS=0
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