Re: BUG #7734: JPA2/Hibernate4 PG enum insert causes exception

On 05-12-2012 18:54, rmitchell@bzzagent.com wrote:

[This is not a PostgreSQL bug. It seems a limitation/bug in Hibernate dialect.]

> insert into my_table (gender) values ('male');
> insert into my_table (gender) values ('female');
> insert into my_table (gender) values ('unknown');
> 
s/gender/gender_type/

> Caused by: org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: column “gender_type” is
> of type GENDER_ENUM but expression is of type character varying
> Hint: You will need to rewrite or cast the expression.
> 
What is the SQL generated by Hibernate? It seems it is casting the expression
to varchar like:

insert into my_table (gender_type) values ('male'::varchar);


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