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This page describes my the steps required and issues associated with running AppFuse on PostgreSQL. If you're developing on Windows or OS X, click here for install packages.
This howto assumes you've already installed PostgreSQL and your DBA username/password combination is postgres/postgres.

Table of Contents

  • [1] Setup JDBC Driver
  • [2] Basic Configuration Tweaks
  • [3] Run JUnit Tests
  • [4] Configure Tomcat to talk to PostgreSQL
  • [5] Other issues
  • [6] Sample CREATE DATABASE script

Setup JDBC Driver [#1]

The PostgreSQL JDBC version 3 driver is included in AppFuse, so we just need to tell AppFuse to use it, and what the database connection parameters are.

Edit your build.properties file to reflect your new database of choice. MySQL settings are the defaults specified in properties.xml. Here is a sample for PostgreSQL:

PostgreSQL:

database.jar=${postgresql.jar}
database.type=postgresql
database.name=appfuse
database.host=localhost

hibernate.dialect=net.sf.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQLDialect
database.driver_class=org.postgresql.Driver
database.url=jdbc:${database.type}://${database.host}/${database.name}
database.username=test
database.password=test
You can use the database.properties.reference file for other database's settings. NOTE: AppFuse cannot create your database for you in PostgreSQL like it can with MySQL. So those configuration settings are not needed. Therefore, the "db-create" target does not create a database when running PostgreSQL. See the PostgreSQL Sample Script[6] for creating a new database in the Command Line Processor.

Code/Configuration Tweaks [#2]

Using Hibernate's generator-class="native" for id's in PostgreSQL fails. This is likely due to the fact that data is being inserted using DBUnit and the sequences get out of wack. Changing all id's to "increment" (example below) and seems to fix the problem. This worked on all the databases tested (MySQL, PostgreSQL and DB2).


    /**
     * Returns the id.
     @return String
     *
     * @hibernate.id column="id"
     *  generator-class="increment" unsaved-value="null"
     */
    public Long getId() {
        return id;
    }

Run JUnit Tests [#3]

No changes are needed to make AppFuse properly run the supplied dao tests.

Configure Tomcat to talk to PostgreSQL [#4]

Since AppFuse 1.3 the database-specific attributes in tomcat-context.xml and hibernate.cfg.xml are replaced at build-time. This means that nothing special is needed to get Tomcat to talk to PostgreSQL. For users with older versions of AppFuse see the note on the DB2 version of this page for more information.

Other issues [#5]

Turn off Hibernate Batch Processing for PostgreSQL
When an exception is thrown while performing batch processing in Hibernate on PostgreSQL the cause of the exception is never displayed in the stack trace. By turning off the batch processing exceptions get reported immediately and completely. This can be done by adding an entry into applicationContext-hibernate.xml. Within the element sessionFactory, locate the property hibernateProperties and make it look like this:

        <property name="hibernateProperties">
        <props>
            <prop key="hibernate.dialect">@HIBERNATE-DIALECT@</prop>

            <!-- turn off batch updated for PostgreSQL to get nicer exception messages -->
	    <prop key="hibernate.jdbc.batch_size">0</prop>
        </props>
        </property>

This will have an effect on the performance of the database, so consider the tradeoff of having better error messages.

Sample CREATE DATABASE script [#6]

This is a sample PostgreSQL script to create a user and a database for an AppFuse application.
-- create the test user
create user test password 'test';

-- create the database
create database appfuse owner test;


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This particular version was published on 06-Nov-2006 13:52:42 MST by MattRaible.