[hibernate-dev] CharacterTypeMapping within Oracle10gDialect

[Chris Bredesen]

A CLOB is an entirely different animal than a text/char/varchar column. 
  I'd be somewhat surprised to find out that my Types.VARCHAR got turned 
into a LOB, personally - even if they are not recommended on Oracle.  Of 
course you can extend the Dialect in any way you see fit, or just map 
your property as a CLOB from the get go.  Not that I'm not a fan of 
CLOBs, I am; it's just that VARCHAR conceptually maps better to a long 
than to a CLOB.

My 2 cents :)

Thorsten Gast wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just wonder if there is any reason, why the Oracle10gDialect uses the characterTypeMapping of the Oracle9iDialect, and doesn't implement its own. As far as I know is the usage of long-columns in Oracle10g "deprecated" and should be replaced by clobs.
> 
> Shouldn't look the mapping something like this?
> 
> ---- snippet ----
> 	protected void registerCharacterTypeMappings() {
> 		registerColumnType( Types.CHAR, "char(1 char)" );
> 		registerColumnType( Types.VARCHAR, 4000, "varchar2($l char)" );
> 		registerColumnType( Types.VARCHAR, "clob" );
> 	}
> ---- snippet ----
> 
> Or are there any reasons why I should prefer the usage of long-columns within hibernate.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Thorsten
> 
> 
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