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The configured time zone storage type NATIVE is not supporte

Error message

The configured time zone storage type NATIVE is not supported with the configured dialect

What it means

Error "The configured time zone storage type NATIVE is not supported with the configured dialect" thrown in hibernate/hibernate-orm.

Source

Thrown at hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/boot/internal/MetadataBuilderImpl.java:840

		}

		@Override
		@Nonnull
		public TimeZoneSupport getTimeZoneSupport() {
			try {
				return getDialect().getTimeZoneSupport();
			}
			catch ( ServiceException se ) {
				return TimeZoneSupport.NONE;
			}
		}

		@Nonnull
		private TimeZoneStorageStrategy toTimeZoneStorageStrategy(@Nonnull TimeZoneSupport timeZoneSupport) {
			return switch (defaultTimezoneStorage) {
				case NATIVE -> {
					if ( timeZoneSupport != TimeZoneSupport.NATIVE ) {
						throw new HibernateException( "The configured time zone storage type NATIVE is not supported with the configured dialect" );
					}
					yield TimeZoneStorageStrategy.NATIVE;
				}
				case COLUMN -> TimeZoneStorageStrategy.COLUMN;
				case NORMALIZE -> TimeZoneStorageStrategy.NORMALIZE;
				case NORMALIZE_UTC -> TimeZoneStorageStrategy.NORMALIZE_UTC;
				case AUTO -> switch (timeZoneSupport) {
					// if the db has native support for timezones, we use that, not a column
					case NATIVE -> TimeZoneStorageStrategy.NATIVE;
					// otherwise we use a separate column
					case NORMALIZE, NONE -> TimeZoneStorageStrategy.COLUMN;
				};
				case DEFAULT -> switch (timeZoneSupport) {
					// if the db has native support for timezones, we use that, and don't normalize
					case NATIVE -> TimeZoneStorageStrategy.NATIVE;
					// otherwise we normalize things to UTC
					case NORMALIZE, NONE -> TimeZoneStorageStrategy.NORMALIZE_UTC;
				};

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Solutions

1. Change hibernate.timezone.default_storage away from NATIVE (use NORMALIZE, COLUMN, or DEFAULT) for this dialect/database.
2. Upgrade to a database/driver version whose dialect supports native timestamptz storage.
3. Check the dialect actually configured; a wrong dialect can falsely report missing support.

When it happens

Trigger: hibernate.timezone.default_storage=NATIVE is used with a dialect that cannot store time zones natively.

Common situations: Enabling native time zone storage on a database/dialect without native timezone-capable column types.

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