> all of the "special" PG data types like CITEXT are listed as "Other". I 
> assume I should select something other than that, right? 

Yeah.. And I guess we may need to add CITEXT to Cayenne PG adapter so that it 
is reverse engineered as VARCHAR or CLOB or something.

On Oct 30, 2012, at 8:06 PM, Garth Keesler <[email protected]> wrote:

> Using 3.1B1. But your second question made me look in Modeler and all of the 
> "special" PG data types like CITEXT are listed as "Other". I assume I should 
> select something other than that, right? I'll give it a try and see what 
> happens.
> 
> Thanx...
> 
> On 10/30/2012 11:42 AM, Andrus Adamchik wrote:
>> So what version of Cayenne are you using (I'd recommend 3.1B1)?
>> 
>> Also what type do you select for CTEXT columns in Cayenne model? Should be 
>> something like VARCHAR?
>> 
>> Andrus
>> 
>> On Oct 30, 2012, at 7:06 PM, Garth Keesler <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Thanx for the reply. The problem I seem to be having is that the 
>>> schema-generated persistent classes have errors whenever one of the CITEXT 
>>> attributes is mentioned. Following is a sample of the code which is causing 
>>> errors.
>>> 
>>> public void setInvoicenbr($importUtils.formatJavaType(${attr.Type}) 
>>> invoicenbr) {
>>>       writeProperty(INVOICENBR_PROPERTY, invoicenbr);
>>>   }
>>>   public $importUtils.formatJavaType(${attr.Type}) getInvoicenbr() {
>>>       return 
>>> ($importUtils.formatJavaType(${attr.Type}))readProperty(INVOICENBR_PROPERTY);
>>>   }
>>> 
>>> The errors are the same for each occurrence of the CITEXT data type.
>>> 
>>> Description    Resource    Path    Location    Type
>>> $ cannot be resolved to a variable    _Lineitems.java 
>>> /oespg/src/main/java/org/ttna/oespg/persistent/auto    line 80 Java Problem
>>> 
>>> If this is not helpful, let me know and I'll include schema and more code.
>>> 
>>> Thanx,
>>> Garth
>>> 
>>> On 10/30/2012 10:10 AM, Andrus Adamchik wrote:
>>>> I don't have much recent firsthand PG experience, but reading citext docs, 
>>>> it looks like exactly what you need.
>>>> 
>>>> So when comparisons are done in SQL it should work (at least it works for 
>>>> me on MySQL with similar DB-side settings). On the other hand if you are 
>>>> using in-memory filtering with expressions it won't work, as in-memory 
>>>> comparisons are simple Java "equal".
>>>> 
>>>> Finally there is a 'likeIgnoreCase' expression that works consistently 
>>>> in-memory and in DB (regardless of DB-side case sensitivity), as the name 
>>>> implies.
>>>> 
>>>> Andrus
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Oct 30, 2012, at 2:54 PM, Garth Keesler<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I'm converting an MS Access ADP project to Java/Postgresql/Cayenne (my 
>>>>> first and mostly for the fun of it) and am trying to figure out how to 
>>>>> best match the case insensitive string usage that is in SQL Server. I 
>>>>> created the PG database using CITEXT only where actually necessary but it 
>>>>> doesn't seem to be recognized in Cayenne. It appears that I need to 
>>>>> replace all CITEXT columns with TEXT and handle case insensitive 
>>>>> comparisons manually. I've found a couple of threads that mention this 
>>>>> but none had any real advice on how best to do it in a Cayenne 
>>>>> environment. Lower() is frequently mentioned as the usual approach but 
>>>>> before I go down that path too far I'd appreciate a little feedback from 
>>>>> more experienced Cayenne users.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanx Much,
>>>>> Garth
>>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> 

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