diff --git a/grails-app/conf/DataSource.groovy b/grails-app/conf/DataSource.groovy
index e4f9b7be..b89b9b64 100644
--- a/grails-app/conf/DataSource.groovy
+++ b/grails-app/conf/DataSource.groovy
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ hibernate {
     cache.use_query_cache = false
 //    cache.region.factory_class = 'net.sf.ehcache.hibernate.SingletonEhCacheRegionFactory' // Hibernate 3
     cache.region.factory_class = 'org.hibernate.cache.ehcache.EhCacheRegionFactory' // Hibernate 4
+    jdbc.use_get_generated_keys = true
 }
 // environment specific settings
 environments {