This is still an issue! One of the comments above summarises it perfectly: https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HHH-2716?focusedCommentId=29470&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-29470

The work around for the moment is using a custom generator and not using replicate at all. https://stackoverflow.com/a/8535006/728602

Currently, I don't see the point in having the replicate method at all.