> I guess we can make "autodetect" a default in that dialog.

Hmm.. we can't. As this dialog is shown before we even connect to DB. 

Andrus


> On Oct 23, 2018, at 3:45 PM, Andrus Adamchik <and...@objectstyle.org> wrote:
> 
> Yeah, you'd need to select the specific adapter right in the generation 
> dialog.
> 
> I guess we can make "autodetect" a default in that dialog.
> 
> Andrus
> 
> 
>> On Oct 23, 2018, at 2:22 PM, Tony Giaccone <t...@giaccone.org> wrote:
>> 
>> It might be useful for the Modeler to auto-detect as well because if you do
>> schema generation, you end up with different sql from the modeler than the
>> runtime.  We started a dbdeploy process, and the sql generated was captured
>> from the modeler with the JDBC plain adaptor for the auto_pk, but then
>> instances also  sequences  because some of the it was originally done using
>> schema generation and it got  confusing.
>> 
>> 
>> Tony
>> 
>> On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 12:40 AM Andrus Adamchik <and...@objectstyle.org>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> If you don't set the adapter, Cayenne will auto-detect the DB type in
>>> runtime and install a proper adapter. Modeler doesn't do auto-detection,
>>> but the runtime does. In fact I don't remember when was the last time I had
>>> to specify an adapter explicitly.
>>> 
>>> Andrus
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Oct 23, 2018, at 12:38 AM, Tony Giaccone <t...@giaccone.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I understand that the kind of PK support that Cayenne uses depends on the
>>>> adaptor you use. When you use:
>>>> 
>>>> org.apache.cayenne.dba.postgres.PostgresAdapter
>>>> 
>>>> you get sequences, not the pk_auto table.
>>>> 
>>>> I see where you can pick the adaptor as part of a database schema
>>>> generation. What's less clear to me, is what adaptor is used if cayenne
>>>> detects that a schema needs to be generated.  Or more generally what
>>> causes
>>>> a dba adaptor to end up in the stack.
>>>> 
>>>> Is there some kind of database detection that determines which adaptor
>>> get
>>>> used?
>>>> 
>>>> I didn't think we were explicitly setting it to PostgresAdapter, and yet
>>> we
>>>> still ended up with sequences. Of course it's possible that someone on
>>> the
>>>> team did, so I don't want to rule that out as a possibility, but it
>>> occurs
>>>> to me that there might be some kind of detection especially in cases
>>> where
>>>> the schema is being generated "automatically".
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Tony Giaccone
>>> 
>>> 
> 

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