[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Commented: (HHH-6717) oracle does not have a boolean type

[ http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-6717?page=c... ] Steve Ebersole commented on HHH-6717: ------------------------------------- The problem here is that of legacy compatibility. We need this to do whatever Hibernate used to do. iirc Hibernate used to treat booleans as char-based. If so, that is what we need to continue to do here now as well. The concern is this: imagine an application has previously used Hibernate's schema export to generate a table for and entity with a boolean. If we now change the behavior of how that stores/retrieves the boolean value we have introduced a mismatch and broken that application. I totally agree that what you describe is the appropriate behaviour. However we just need to cater to this legacy case. Seems like a flag is the most appropriate solution. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira