Doctrine2 doesn't set sequence to default for id column (postgres)

Question

Just a simple example: If I want create a table with auto fill id in postgres I run this sql:

CREATE SEQUENCE person_id_seq  START 1;

CREATE TABLE person (
         


        

Answer 1

I encountered this problem today and I found that:

• IDENTITY work good, because it uses SERIAL type for PostgreSQL, which automatically creates related sequence and set default value as nextval(sequence)

• AUTO creates table and then related sequence, but doesn't set default value for id column. It can be set by adding following code:

  /**
   * Webpage's ID
   *
   * @ORM\Id
   * @ORM\Column(type="integer", options={"default"="nextval('webpages_id_seq'::regclass)"})
   * @ORM\GeneratedValue(strategy="IDENTITY")
   */
  protected $id;
  

  but unfortunately Doctrine create table first, so we need to swap SQL code creating table and sequence in order that sequence will be created first

• SEQUENCE works the same as AUTO