I have a special need to set the id of newly created entities to some integer relating to UNIX timestamp (not autoincrement based). Any idea how to do this? i am using Phoenix 1.3. Thank you.

Hello. Here is the example repo. https://github.com/voger/custom_id_test It took me a while to make the pgsql function work :slight_smile: and I didn’t have much time to add controllers or example of custom id using changesets. This example demonstrates how to do it using the database with a sequen…

How to set id value in code upon entity creation

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tomconroy October 1, 2017, 4:11pm 5

Try doing it with a Postgres function, like this

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