Java & Postgres enums - How do I make them work together for update?

Question

acttype is an enumcs so you can\'t insert it as a normal string without casting it to an enumcs INSERT INTO dir_act (actcode,actname,acttype,national_code) VALUES (?,?

Answer 1

You have to define implicit conversion in Postgres along with your type definition, like below:

CREATE CAST (varchar AS animal_type) WITH INOUT AS IMPLICIT;

Than you can skip the explicit conversion in insert; so it works also with Spring Data JDBC and other libs that do generate insert query for you.