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  1. OpenJPA
  2. OPENJPA-2555

Timestamp precision from manual schema not respected

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    • Bug
    • Status: Resolved
    • Major
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • 2.2.2, 2.3.0
    • 3.1.0
    • jdbc, jpa, sql
    • None

    Description

      The use cases here are the following:

      1. JPA entities are to-be-created for an existing database schema which includes several timestamp columns with explicit precision
      2. A developer wants to specify timestamp precision inside JPA entities to better specify column data type information for the generated schema


      In both cases, the result will be that any query executed for a timestamp column that is configured for less than millisecond precision (e.g. deci- or centi-seconds) will fail to find appropriate rows.

      One of the reasons for that is that the precision used for rounding a timestamp value before it goes into a query is configured for a whole database type (using the dictionary) or the whole persistence context (using the configuration parameter).

      This makes it impossible to have different column configurations, e.g. some without any precision declaration (where it's not important) but some with.

      In addition, the default precision for the standard timestamp data type is 6 (microseconds), which is not respected by some databases (most prominently MySQL, which defaults to a precision of "0" instead).

      However, even if respected, when using timestamps generated by the database itself, which include the relevant precision, using those values for later comparison often fails because of precision mismatch and also for different behavior of different databases regarding fractional handling and the way how comparisons on timestamps work.

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        1. 2.2.x-Enable-timestamp-precision-handling.patch
          17 kB
          Ancoron Luciferis
        2. 2.3.x-Enable-timestamp-precision-handling.patch
          16 kB
          Ancoron Luciferis
        3. openjpa-2.2.x-Enhance-timestamp-precision-handling.patch
          63 kB
          Ancoron Luciferis
        4. openjpa-2.3.x-Enhance-timestamp-precision-handling.patch
          62 kB
          Ancoron Luciferis
        5. openjpa-trunk-Enhance-timestamp-precision-handling.patch
          62 kB
          Ancoron Luciferis
        6. timestamp-scale-preserve-default-behavior.patch
          3 kB
          Ancoron Luciferis
        7. trunk-Enable-timestamp-precision-handling.patch
          16 kB
          Ancoron Luciferis

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              struberg Mark Struberg
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