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[Grails8 Hibernate7] Mapping a property to "type: 'text'" throws a CommandAcceptanceException #16010
Description
Expected Behavior
Our app should launch without exception, even if database DDL are executed.
Actual Behaviour
An exception is thrown:
WARN 78010 --- [ main] o.h.t.s.i.ExceptionHandlerLoggedImpl : GenerationTarget encountered exception accepting command : Error executing DDL "
alter table if exists application_message
alter column body set data type varchar(32600)" via JDBC [ERROR: value too long for type character varying(32600)]
org.hibernate.tool.schema.spi.CommandAcceptanceException: Error executing DDL "
alter table if exists application_message
alter column body set data type varchar(32600)" via JDBC [ERROR: value too long for type character varying(32600)]
Steps To Reproduce
- Create a domain class with a mapping:
@GrailsCompileStatic
class ApplicationMessage {
String body
static constraints = {
}
static mapping = {
body type: 'text'
}
}- Use
bootRuntask, it should fail at startup with a similar message than above.
Environment Information
❯ psql -V
psql (PostgreSQL) 18.4
❯ uname -a
Linux auo-big-achyos 7.1.3-2-cachyos #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed, 08 Jul 2026 06:14:22 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux
❯ java -fullversion
openjdk full version "25.0.3"Example Application
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Version
Grails 8.0.0-M3
Activity
fix(grails-data-hibernate7): make type: 'text' produce an unbounded c…