I'm repeating this, since it never received action:
On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 18:14 -0500, Tim Holloway wrote:
> I turned the schema tool loose on a MySQL production database this
> afternoon and it failed. The essence of the problem appears that DDL was
> being generated with a type declaration of this form:
>
> int unsigned(10)
>
> In MySQL, the proper form is:
>
> int(10) unsigned
>
> viz:
>
> ALTER TABLE fubar MODIFY col1 int(10) unsigned;
>
> Checking other options indicates that similar constructs such as CREATE
> TABLE are likewise defective.
>
> I looked at the svn trunk head source code in
> org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.sql.MySQLDictionary.java and the parent class
> DBDictionary.java. The offending method appears to be:
>
> 1508: public String getTypeName(Column col)
>
> This method has no override in MySQLDictionary, but apparently needs
> one. I think it's a minor mod, but I'm not currently set up to build and
> test in the environment where the offending database exists.
>
> This is a SEVERE error. It causes generation of defective SQL for
> SQL-generating options and causes live updates to schemas to fail.
>
> I don't have a Jira login at present, so if someone could log this, it
> would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tim Holloway
>
