On 02/06/2004 12:47 Jan Heise wrote:
> oliver, thanks for your reply.
>
> the db in question is a 7.4 site in production. upgrading to another
> version is not really what i'd like
> to do. the explicit cast is problematic too, i'm using hibernate as my
> orm. unless i missed something
> in the docs, i can not add the cast to the config - but this is sth. for
> the hibernate forums.
>
> the problem is a special case where i have to load objects from the
> table in question by the pk
> (details would be quite long, but i can not change the table-structure
> at this time). table size is
> approx. 120 million rows and approx 2 million rows have a pk < INT4_MAX.
> so i think my only
> option is dropping the foreign keys, making the pks and all references
> bigger than INT4_MAX
> and recreate the fk.
>
> jan
There's an unofficial patch:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-jdbc/2003-09/msg00143.php
which might solve your problems for now. IIRC, there's a server-side patch
been submitted which will solve the int4/int8 issue and may be 7.5.
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