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jOOQ - lock in choice between `TABLES` and `ENTITIES`

jOOQ seems to switch between using TABLES and plural STMTS to ENTITIES and singular STMT in jOOQ-internal classes for no clear discernable reason.

Those needless changes kind of pollute our git commits and I am hoping to stabilise them.

What is causing those switches, and can we lock in jOOQ into either?

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One thing that's being bounced around as an idea is developer platform? (MacOS vs Linux, in this case). Database runs in a docker container, though.

Solution

  • Known issues

    The problem here is that the overload ordering algorithm may not be stable for PostgreSQL overloaded functions. Relevant issues include:

    Historic issues:

    Workarounds

    Workarounds include:

    • To generate your own stable class and method names for overloaded functions, using a custom GeneratorStrategy.
    • Avoid overloading, that's going to work even better. With named and defaulted parameters, overloads may not really be necessary.