How to configure Hibernate to put quotes around table names

Question

I\'ve got a situation where I\'m trying to create a table called \'user\' in Postgres, which throws an error due to Hibernate not putting table names in quotes:

Answer 1

This answer might help you: https://stackoverflow.com/a/3611916/947357 It shows how to quote table names in Hibernate and in JPA.

Answer 2

You can quote the table name in the mapping block with backticks. Hibernate will convert those to whatever the quoting approach is for the database based on the Dialect:

static mapping = {
    table "`user`"
}

You can also just rename the table to something else that doesn't require quoting/escaping, e.g.

static mapping = {
    table "users"
}

Answer 3

Assuming you're follwing the same tutorial as I do ("Getting started with Grails" by InfoQ) you've already understood it doesn't provide any coverage to PostgreSQL. Based on this post:

1. "User" is a reserved word in Postgres.
2. The mapping should be added into the class itself (it's not absolutely obvious):

class User { 
   String username 
   String password 
   ... 
   static mapping = { 
      table 'users' 
      password column: '`password`' 
   } 
}

or

class User { 
   String username 
   String password 
   ... 
   static mapping = { 
      table '`user`' 
      password column: '`password`' 
   } 
}