Mapping PostgreSQL serial type with Hibernate annotations

Question

I am using Hibernate 3.3 and PostgreSQL 8.x and would like to use Hibernate annotations to map an auto-incremented column which is NOT a primary key.

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Answer 1

I'm using this with postgresql9.1, should work with 8 too:

@SequenceGenerator(allocationSize=1, initialValue=1, sequenceName="account_id_seq", name="account_id_seq")
@GeneratedValue(generator="account_id_seq", strategy=GenerationType.SEQUENCE)
@Id
@Column(name="id")
private Integer id;