Re: [HACKERS] JPA + enum == Exception

Tom Dunstan <pgsql@tomd.cc>

From: Tom Dunstan <pgsql@tomd.cc>
To: Dave Cramer <pg@fastcrypt.com>
Cc: "pgsql-jdbc@postgresql.org" <pgsql-jdbc@postgresql.org>
Date: 2013-07-07T04:09:16Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 5 July 2013 19:27, Dave Cramer <pg@fastcrypt.com> wrote:

> I would think setObject should respect stringtype=unspecified. So I would
> be willing to accept this as a solution
>

OK, here's a pull request with a unit test to cover expected behaviour with
different combinations of setObject and setString, for inserts and queries.

https://github.com/pgjdbc/pgjdbc/pull/68

Interestingly, when I first tried this I tried using point as the type to
test rather than an enum (so that I didn't have to create the enum type in
the test), but it would fail when trying to select a row out in a query
like "select * from thetable where p = ?" saying "operator does not exist:
point = unknown". I presume that this due to multiple = operators for the
point type at the db level, so the backend can't decide which type to
create. I guess there's not much that we can do about that - if things are
ambiguous then you need to be more specific, and of course we have a
PGpoint java object anyway.

Cheers

Tom