# Bake a Model with no Primary Key

**URL:** <https://discourse.cakephp.org/t/bake-a-model-with-no-primary-key/1315>\
**Category:** Need Help\
**Tags:** behavior\
**Created:** [October 11, 2016, 9:25pm UTC](https://discourse.cakephp.org/t/bake-a-model-with-no-primary-key/1315 "2016-10-11T21:25:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 11, 2016, 9:25pm UTC](https://discourse.cakephp.org/t/bake-a-model-with-no-primary-key/1315/1 "2016-10-11T21:25:35Z")

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I’m attempting to bake a model based on a materialized view. Postgres doesn’t support constraints on views, so bake is complaining about not having a primary key. The view is in all other ways conformant to Cake conventions.

Is there a way around this?