[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Commented: (ANN-604) There is no annotation to specify default value for a column

[Luke Maurer (JIRA)]

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Luke Maurer commented on ANN-604:
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Agreed - and I would submit that this ins't in fact "minor" as there's no good workaround when you want the DDL to reflect the default. For us, 90% of the time when a database schema change requires manual intervention by every developer with a local development database, it's because of a column that's been added that should not be null (or not by default). Often this leads to subtle "bugs" on development boxes if not everyone keeps their schema current (or not everyone follows procedure when checking in a schema change).

Docs suggest the use of the columnDefinition attribute, but this requires us to specify the SQL data type explicitly, which has its own problems.

> There is no annotation to specify default value for a column
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: ANN-604
>                 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/ANN-604
>             Project: Hibernate Annotations
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: binder
>    Affects Versions: 3.3.0.ga
>            Reporter: Nicolae Bucalaete
>            Priority: Minor
>
> In hibernate annotation you can't specify default value for a column.
> If you use xml files for mapping then you have this feature. 
> I consider that this is a major problem with annotation.

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