[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Resolved: (HHH-6105) PostgreSQL problem when using @Lob on String field

PostgreSQL problem when using @Lob on String field -------------------------------------------------- Key: HHH-6105 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-6105 Project: Hibernate Core Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: 3.6.0, 3.6.1, 3.6.2, 3.6.3 Environment: postgresql:8.3-606.jdbc3 Reporter: Roelof Jan Koekoek Assignee: Gail Badner After upgrading from 3.5.6 to 3.6 we ran into issues using @Lob on String fields previously mapping to PostgreSQL's TEXT type. When loading these fields the PostgreSQL driver returns a: "org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: Bad value for type long: Text content..." The problem can be traced to Hibernates ClobTypeDescriptor which calls a resultSet.getClob("lobfield"). Apparently it expects an OID pointing to a clob and not the text field. I found a lengthy discussion on this subject here: http://groups.google.com/group/pgsql.interfaces.jdbc/browse_thread/thread... At the bottom of the discussion a workaround is mentioned. Using @Type(type="org.hibernate.type.StringClobType") on the @Lob String fields gets things working as before, but this is a deprecated solution.