SQL feature not supported exception when starting Confluence 7.14 or later on PostgreSQL

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Problem

The following exception appears in the atlassian-confluence.log when starting Confluence 7.14 or later with a PostgreSQL database.

1 2 WARN [Catalina-utility-1] [zaxxer.hikari.pool.ProxyConnection] checkException HikariPool-1 - Connection org.postgresql.jdbc.PgConnection@907892d marked as broken because of SQLSTATE(0A000), ErrorCode(0) java.sql.SQLFeatureNotSupportedException: Method org.postgresql.jdbc.PgConnection.createClob() is not yet implemented.

Cause

This error is caused by a known issue with Hibernate. See https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HHH-12368 for more details.

Resolution

You can ignore this error. It will be resolved by a Hibernate upgrade in a future Confluence release.

Updated on April 8, 2025

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