hi,

i know this is no fault of hibernate but maybe somebody
knows are workaround using hibernate.

i am using postgres (but this is certainly a 'feature' of
many dbs). sometimes i get the following exception
"value too long for type character varying" which happens
exactly in cases when the value i want to save is longer
than specified on the db. depending on your point of view
this might be ok or not. im my case it is not. what i want is
to simply cut off the value at max size and be done.
no exceptions please ;-)

does anybody know how to workaround this either
by hibernate or by using the postgres jdbc driver or
whatever.

btw. i would find an attribute on the property element
way cool. so one would be able to respecify the facts
on the db table.

<property name="foo" lenght="10">
this would drop everything greater than 10 chars long.

ciao robertj
ps: my best bet at the moment would be to use
aspectj but it would "feel" more natural doing this as close
to the db as possible.

I'd say, just use custom UserType. If you feel adventourous use cvs Hibernate3 with parameterizable types.