[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Commented: (HHH-4341) There is no annotation to specify default value for a column

[ http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-4341?page=c... ] tscho commented on HHH-4341: ---------------------------- A possible workaround is to use the columnDefinition parameter in the @Column annotation. For example: @Column(name="myInt", columnDefinition="INTEGER DEFAULT 17"). Though this solution is database specific it worked fine for me so far. But there is a major problem with this solution when it comes to primary keys (PK is a random UUID in a PostgreSQL 8.4 database): class PkEntity { @Id @Column(nullable = false, unique = true, updatable = false, columnDefinition = "uuid DEFAULT uuid_generate_v4()") java.util.UUID id; } When this entity is referenced from another entity like this (nullable FK): class FkEntity { @ManyToOne(optinal=true) @JoinColumn PkEntity pkEntity; } the generated schema looks like this: CREATE TABLE fk_entity ( pk_entity uuid DEFAULT uuid_generate_v4() ) and this is of course not what I want my nullable FK to look like! -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/secure/Administrators.... - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira