I want to use PostgreSQL's native UUID type with a Java UUID. I am using Hibernate as my JPA provider and ORM. If I try to save it directly, it is just saved as a bytea in Postgres.
How can I do this?
I want to use PostgreSQL's native UUID type with a Java UUID. I am using Hibernate as my JPA provider and ORM. If I try to save it directly, it is just saved as a bytea in Postgres.
How can I do this?
In non-JPA usage I'd create a UserType to format the UUID as a string that PostgreSQL accepts, then just give the name of the UserType implementation as the column type.
you could try with:
@Column(name="foo", columnDefinition="uuid")
where columnDefinition is a fragment of native SQL
Perhaps you can get UUID type to be auto-converted to a String (uuid.toString() should give the canonical 36-char representation)? DBs usually convert things reliably between Strings and native types.
Try use the latest development version of the JDBC driver (Currently 8.4dev-700), or wait for the next release version. (Edited to add: 8.4-701 has been released)
The release notes mention this change:
Map the database uuid type to java.util.UUID. This only works for relatively new server (8.3) and JDK (1.5) versions.