Re: [BUGS] Mapping Hibernate boolean to smallint(Postgresql)

As for why no one mentioned it, I think that is because probably every one of us thinks that's the worst solution to your problem of all those that have been presented so far. If you lack the experience with hibernate such that you aren't even aware of the existence of the dialect classes, then you probably shouldn't be mucking about with modifying them - especially when hibernate provides a mechanism to solve exactly your problem in the form of user defined types.  I cannot fathom what your resistance to using a user type might be.  Your problem is exactly what they are designed for - to map an arbitrary java class to an arbitrary database structure.  In your case, the user type will be incredibly simple, since it is mapping a built-in type to a single column via a nearly trivial conversion mechanism.  You could fix this in 20 minutes or less with a hibernate book and a user type.