Re: [Treebase-devel] we may have to give up on PK auto-generation by postgres

[Rutger V. <rut...@gm...>]

> All this speaks in favor of the theory that TB2 Hibernate got confused
> by the DB2-->Postgres switch, which was done in the hope that
> Hibernate default behavior would remain the same.    It appears we
> must now figure out how to explicitly instruct TB2 DAO and Hibernate
> to behave in the way that best matches their behavior back in the DB2
> days.

Right, and that behaviour would be that the database itself
autoincrements IDs without intervention from hibernate, as the DB2
creation commands indicate.

> Does anyone feel confident in their understanding of TB2 DAO and
> Hibernate to lead us along a faster path?

I certainly can't: you can see my flailing and floundering in the svn
history of the creation script.

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