Re: Hibernate and Postgres 8.3/8.4

Oliver Jowett <oliver(at)opencloud(dot)com> writes:
> Michael Bell wrote:
>> Caused by: org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: operator does not exist: smallint = character varying
>> Hint: No operator matches the given name and argument type(s). You might need to add explicit type casts.
>> Position: 628

>> The queries in question are all "correct" in that they use query.setXXX, where XXX is a "reasonable" thing like String, Integer, Long.....nothing fancy...

> Well, from the exception, either Hibernate is doing setString() on a
> parameter that is compared to a smallint, or it's doing setShort() on a
> parameter that is compared to a varchar type.. so one of the two sides
> is wrong.

Yeah. This looks to me like Hibernate contains instances of the exact
sort of bug --- not trivial issue, real bug --- that we removed the
implicit casts to help people catch. You should definitely file a bug
report with them.

regards, tom lane