[ http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-1501?page=c... ] Steven Swor commented on HHH-1501: ---------------------------------- This is a documented issue with Derby: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-102 The Derby team's "fix" was to make their documentation reflect the ~32K character limit instead of increasing the limit itself. So, to make a long story short, Derby doesn't allow VARCHAR, LONG VARCHAR, VARCHAR FOR BIT DATA, or LONG VARCHAR FOR BIT DATA columns longer than ~32K. So it sounds like the real "fix" for Hibernate would be for someone to go into the Derby project and increase the limit there. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/secure/Administrators.... - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira