From http://www.jroller.com/comments/kenlars99/Weblog/cloudscape_soon_to_be_derby
The problem we had, was when Hibernate does a select with a case statement, for joined subclasses.
This seems to be because there was no else at the end of the case statement (other dbs seem to not mind).
StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer( cases.size() * 15 + 10 );
buf.append( "case" ); //$NON-NLS-1
Iterator iter = cases.entrySet().iterator();
while ( iter.hasNext() ) {
Map.Entry me = ( Map.Entry ) iter.next();
buf.append( " when " )//$NON-NLS-1
.append( me.getKey() )
.append( " is not null then " )//$NON-NLS-1
.append( me.getValue() );
}
// null is not considered the same type as Integer.
buf.append( " else -1" ); //$NON-NLS-1
buf.append( " end" ); //$NON-NLS-1
if ( returnColumnName != null ) {
buf.append( " as " )//$NON-NLS-1
.append( returnColumnName );
}
return buf.toString();
