Hibernate saving User model to Postgres

Question

I\'m using Postgres via Hibernate (annotations), but it seems to be falling over dealing with a User object:

12:09:16,442 ERROR [SchemaExport] Unsuccessful:          


        

Answer 1

You need to escape the table name when using reserved keywords. In JPA 1.0, there is no standardized way and the Hibernate specific solution is to use backticks:

@Entity
@Table(name="`User`")
public class User {
    ...
}

In JPA 2.0, the standardized syntax looks like this:

@Entity
@Table(name="\"User\"")
public class User {
    ...
}

References

• Hibernate Core documentation
  • 5.4. SQL quoted identifiers
• JPA 2.0 specification
  • 2.13 Naming of Database Objects

Answer 2

User is a key word, find a better name or use quotes: "User". (bad idea imho, but it works if you do it everywhere)