Q:

ERROR: syntax error at or near "user"

I'm using Hibernate and have a persistent class called "User". Since this is a keyword, I marked the @Entity attribute with a different name (I have seen, for example, this question:
Unable to use table named "user" in postgresql hibernate)
However, I still run into trouble because this class extends another, and it looks like hibernate is still trying to use "user" as a column name and getting messed up:
@Entity( name = "XonamiUser" )
public class User extends PropertyContainer {
    ...

and
@MappedSuperclass
public abstract class PropertyContainer implements Serializable {
    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
    protected long key;
    /** tags */
    @ElementCollection
    protected Set<String> tags;

    @ElementCollection
    protected Set<String> searchList;
    ...

My other classes that extend PropertyContainer seem to work fine.
Is this a bug in hibernate? Is there some way around this short of refactoring? Thanks!
Here are the errors I'm seeing (slightly cleaned up):
WARN org.hibernate.util.JDBCExceptionReporter - SQL Error: 0, SQLState: 42601
ERROR org.hibernate.util.JDBCExceptionReporter - Batch entry 0 insert into user_search_list (user, search_list) values ('1', 'bjorn') was aborted.  Call getNextException to see the cause.
WARN org.hibernate.util.JDBCExceptionReporter - SQL Error: 0, SQLState: 42601
ERROR org.hibernate.util.JDBCExceptionReporter - ERROR: syntax error at or near "user"
  Position: 31

A:

user is a reserved keyword in PostgreSQL. It is allowed only as quoted identifier.
You have to force Hibernate to use quoted "user" in this INSERT command.
I'm not Hibernate expert but maybe this Hibernate saving User model to Postgres will help?

A:

I'm a bit confused are you referring to a column or table named User... You can use the @Table-annotation to set the table name for the entity in JPA:
@Entity
@Table(name = "XonamiUser")
public class User extends PropertyContainer {

A:

In the end, I refactored the class user to XonamiUser. This wasn't quite what I wanted, but it worked great.

