Liferay 7.0 does not work with Postgres Liferay 7.0 does not work with Postgres https://liferay.dev/c/message_boards/find_thread?p_l_id=119785294&threadId=48429215 2026-04-03T23:24:47Z 2026-04-03T23:24:47Z RE: Liferay 7.0 does not work with Postgres Thomas Kellerer https://liferay.dev/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785294&messageId=48433860 2015-01-30T14:50:54Z 2015-01-30T14:50:54Z <html><head></head><body><div class="quote-title">David H Nebinger:</div><blockquote>Earlier in the startup process is it reporting the correct Hibernate dialect?</blockquote>Yes it did. <br><pre><code>Determine dialect for PostgreSQL 9 Found dialect org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQLDialect</code></pre><br><br><blockquote>Oh, and BTW we're not really debugging LR7 here in the forums, but please open bugs in jira so Liferay will know about them.</blockquote><br>OK, done: https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPS-53193</body></html> Thomas Kellerer 2015-01-30T14:50:54Z RE: Liferay 7.0 does not work with Postgres David H Nebinger https://liferay.dev/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785294&messageId=48432572 2015-01-30T14:24:06Z 2015-01-30T14:24:06Z Earlier in the startup process is it reporting the correct Hibernate dialect?<br /><br />Oh, and BTW we&#39;re not really debugging LR7 here in the forums, but please open bugs in jira so Liferay will know about them. David H Nebinger 2015-01-30T14:24:06Z Liferay 7.0 does not work with Postgres Thomas Kellerer https://liferay.dev/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785294&messageId=48429214 2015-01-30T13:55:02Z 2015-01-30T13:55:02Z <html><head></head><body>I wanted to try out Liferay 7.0 but the installation fails when using Postgres as the database:<br><br><pre><code>13:50:04,371 INFO [http-bio-8080-exec-8][VerifyProcess:79] Completed verification process com.liferay.portal.verify.VerifyGroupedModel in 10ms 13:50:04,372 INFO [http-bio-8080-exec-8][VerifyProcess:69] Verifying com.liferay.portal.verify.VerifyJournal 13:50:04,553 ERROR [http-bio-8080-exec-8][JDBCExceptionReporter:82] ERROR: operator does not exist: character varying = bigint_ Hint: No operator matches the given name and argument type(s). You might need to add explicit type casts._ Position: 1762 [Sanitized] 13:50:04,557 INFO [http-bio-8080-exec-8][VerifyProcess:79] Completed verification process com.liferay.portal.verify.VerifyJournal in 185ms 13:50:04,558 INFO [http-bio-8080-exec-8][VerifyProcess:79] Completed verification process com.liferay.portal.verify.VerifyProcessSuite in 1022ms 13:50:23,252 ERROR [http-bio-8080-exec-4][CompanyThreadLocal:64] com.liferay.portal.NoSuchCompanyException: No Company exists with the primary key 20153 com.liferay.portal.NoSuchCompanyException: No Company exists with the primary key 20153 at com.liferay.portal.service.persistence.impl.CompanyPersistenceImpl.findByPrimaryKey(CompanyPersistenceImpl.java:1643) at com.liferay.portal.service.persistence.impl.CompanyPersistenceImpl.findByPrimaryKey(CompanyPersistenceImpl.java:1660) at com.liferay.portal.service.base.CompanyLocalServiceBaseImpl.getCompany(CompanyLocalServiceBaseImpl.java:238) </code></pre> <br><br>The culprit is this error message:<br><br><blockquote>ERROR: operator does not exist: character varying = bigint<br> Hint: No operator matches the given name and argument type(s). You might need to add explicit type casts</blockquote><br>Which means the database is not initialized correctly and the whole site doesn't work:<br><br>I am using: <br><ul><li>Liferay 7.0 M3</li><li>Postgres 9.4</li><li>Windows 7</li><li>Java 1.7</li></ul></body></html> Thomas Kellerer 2015-01-30T13:55:02Z