JPA or Hibernate to generate a (non primary key) column value, not starting from 1

Question

I want a JPA/Hibernate (preferably JPA) annotation that can generate the value of a column, that is not a primary key and it doesn\'t start from 1.

From what I have

Answer 1

The @GeneratedValue only works for identifiers and so you can't use it. If you use MySQL, you are quite limited, since database sequences are not supported.

InnoDB doesn't support multiple AUTO_INCREMENT columns and if your table PK is AUTO_INCREMENTED, then you have two options:

1. Go for a separate table that behaves like a sequence generator, the solution you already said you are not happy about.

2. Use an INSERT TRIGGER to increment that column.