FWIW, if I change the return ""; to return null;, I get my application to start \o/.
I'll start testing the application more in depth. FWIW, I don't know if it's something normal but AvailableSettings.DEFAULT_SCHEMA is not used in the constructor of JdbcEnvironmentImpl used when JDBC is available (I first tried to fix the issue by using this setting). On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Guillaume Smet <guillaume.s...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Still trying to get one of our applications starting with ORM 5. With > Search 5.4.0.Beta1 and Spring 4.2.0.RC1, I'm now at the database schema > validation phase. > > I think there's something fishy with the way a table is looked for when > we're using specific schemas in our database. > > Some background: we use PostgreSQL, we remove the public schema and we > create a schema which is the default schema for the user. > > Our Hibernate app doesn't know anything about the schema and it used to > work fine with ORM 3 and 4. > > We like this configuration as the schema used is totally transparent for > the application and we can play with it at the database level without > changing the Hibernate configuration. > > The fact is that it doesn't work anymore with ORM 5. The problem is that, > when the schema is null, ORM now considers that the schema should be "" > (empty string) if we haven't set a default schema at the JDBC level. This > leads to trying to find the tables in the "" schema which obviously fails. > > AFAICS, it's something specifically wanted as in > NormalizingIdentifierHelperImpl.toMetaDataSchemaName, we have the following > lines: > if ( identifier == null ) { > if ( jdbcEnvironment.getCurrentSchema() == null ) { > return ""; > } > identifier = jdbcEnvironment.getCurrentSchema(); > } > > IMHO, in the null case, if the current schema isn't specified, we should > return null and let the database determine which schema to use instead of > deciding that the schema is "". > > If it's null, the schema filter will not be considered and the schema > resolution will be let to the database. > > Any thoughts? > > -- > Guillaume > _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev