I've read posts that reason that things like a tablespace tag shouldn't be added to XDoclet, that makes sense to me. But what I'd like to see is something added to the schemaexport task that allows generically adding text into various places of the DDL, for example, something like



would then generate



Similar things could also be used to generate grant statements (it would have to be the same permissions for every table).

Does that sound like a good idea? Does something like that already exist? If its something that people agree with, I'll write a patch to do it.

yes, there is also a jira for it (cant remember the number).

But nothing havent been done yet.

I could only find one bug relating to this and it was rejected. One of the arguments against being able to specify tablespaces etc is that that's the DBAs responsibility, and schemaexport is a development tool. Often in projects there will be a time where a central development database is used, because not everything can be tested from the developers PCs... we are given the database by a DBA, and the DBA says "Here's the database, do what you want with it, but use these tablespaces, this user" etc. In that case it would be nice if the output DDL could create tables in tablespaces.

What I'm wondering, is if I were to go to the effort of writing the above improvements, would the patch be accepted or rejected?

depends on how it is implemented.

What I would like is that the "schemageneration" is externalized from the Configuration class so we can have a default implementation that can be customized programmatically at will by the user - then we can always hook in more generalized renderings via e.g. freemarker templates etc.