diff --git a/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/SQLDialect.java b/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/SQLDialect.java index 419d215dce..010c46d924 100644 --- a/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/SQLDialect.java +++ b/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/SQLDialect.java @@ -50,12 +50,26 @@ import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable; * Dialects and dialect families as supported by jOOQ. *

* The commercial jOOQ distributions support a variety of dialects, which are - * grouped into dialect families. For instance, the SQL Server dialect family + * grouped into dialect families. For instance, the PostgreSQL dialect family * {@link #POSTGRES} is specialised by its dialects *

+ *

+ * The open source jOOQ distributions only support the dialect family, which + * corresponds to the latest supported dialect version of the commercial + * distribution. + *

+ * If a dialect is documented but does not seem to be available in your jOOQ + * Edition, you may be using the wrong edition, e.g. because of a transitive + * dependency introduced by Spring Boot. See this article about how to exclude + * such transitive dependencies from your classpath https://blog.jooq.org/2019/06/26/how-to-use-jooqs-commercial-distributions-with-spring-boot/. * * @author Lukas Eder */