On 01/29/2014 09:07 AM, Craig Ringer wrote:

A challenge I've found when approaching this from the ORM side has been
getting people to care. The sentiment has tended to be along the lines
of: No other DBMS does this or requires this, why do we have to jump
through hoops just to make PostgreSQL happy?

Is this true? Can you use other JDBC drivers (except SQLite) to insert Java Strings into NUMERIC columns and Java ints into text columns?

Look at the example that started this thread, though. The stack is:

PostgreSQL
   PgJDBC
     Java JDBC API
       EBean ORM
         Play! Framework

and *every level* needs to have a clue about this or a way to pass the
information trough transparently.

Now think about Hibernate, Sequel ORM, Django ORM, ActiveRecord,
EclipseLink, OpenJPA, DataMapper, Entity Framework, EBean, TopLink,
iBatis/MyBatis, Doctrine, Propel, CakePHP, Zend, SQLAlchemy, ....

Wouldn't it be nice if we could find a solution to this user pain point
in one place?

What about using types on the PostgreSQL side which match the application types?

In any case, use *can* use strings everywhere if you use the stringtype=unspecified connection parameter:

<http://jdbc.postgresql.org/documentation/92/connect.html#connection-parameters>

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team


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