[dchuk]

Is there any way to have the database generate these automatically vs your application?

[cpburns2009]

The common databases don't support natively support generating ULIDs to my knowledge. You can usually find extensions if you prefer generating them in the database instead of the application. I generate them in the application, and store them as a UUID in PostgreSQL to avoid needing any database extensions.

[djbusby]

Yea, there are a few extensions for PG, in C and Go that give a ulid_create() function that can be used as column default, just like serial.