identity generators withy Postgres 8 ------------------------------------ Key: HHH-1675 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-1675 Project: Hibernate3 Issue Type: Improvement Components: core, documentation Affects Versions: 3.1 Environment: Hibernate 3 and Postgres 8, linux Reporter: Robin Demetriades Original Estimate: 0 minutes Remaining Estimate: 0 minutes I have recently noticed that specifying a generator class = "identity" actually works in Postgres as well when the Primary key is of type SERIAL. This however is not reflected in the documentation and indeed may just be a happy coincidence rather than by design. My improvement request is that this feature be maintained, and even if possible the use of the Postgres DEFAULT keyword used as a generator class in the hibernate-mapping XML. This undocumented feature has the advantage of skipping an extra database call (as opposed to when generator="sequence") and allowing me to have a unique sequence per table if I so wish so I would be sorry to see it lost as the codebase progresses. Rgds, Robin Demetriades