Hibernate use of PostgreSQL sequence does not affect sequence table

Question

I\'ve configured Hibernate to use PostgreSQL sequence (via annotations) to generate values for primary key id column as follows:

@Id 
@Seque         


        

Answer 1

DO NOT USE GenerationType.SEQUENCE for Postgres sequences!

It's completely counter-intuitive, but the Hibernate folks completely messed up on this. You must use GenerationType.AUTO or Hibernate will demolish your sequences if you have to restart/rebuild your DB. It's almost criminally negligent that they would allow this code to go into a production build, but the Hibernate team is rather famous for their bull-headed stances towards flatly-wrong positions (check out their position on LEFT JOINs, for instance).