[gldalmaso]

I believe one of the sought after features when people want to generate ids outside the database is for offline apps, so there is no way to connect to outside counters. The client should have a way to locally generate an id that is final and will be used for the rest of the entity's life. This simplifies the synchronization with the backend because otherwise there must be a (temporary) client id and a final true id. This leads to very convoluted code that deals with two logically different entities, the "pending" ones and the "synced" ones.