How to tell Entity Framework that my ID column is auto-incremented (AspNet Core 2.0 + PostgreSQL)?

Code is simple. Tag.cs entity:

public partial class Tag
{
    [Key]
    [DatabaseGenerated(DatabaseGeneratedOption.Identity)]
    public int Id { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public string Description { get; set; }
}

HomeController.cs class:

public async Task<IActionResult> Index()
{
   tagRepository.Insert(new Tag 
               { 
                   Name = "name", 
                   Description = "description" 
               });
   await UnitOfWork.SaveChangesAsync();  // calls dbContext.SaveChangesAsync()

   return View();
}

TagRepository.cs class:

    // Context it's a usual DBContext injected via Repository's constructor
    public virtual void Insert(TEntity item)
                => Context.Entry(item).State = EntityState.Added;

Tag table was created by running:

CREATE TABLE Tag (
    ID SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
    Name text NOT NULL,
    Description text NULL
);

When run my application I get an error:

fail: Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Database.Command[20102]
      Failed executing DbCommand (28ms) [Parameters=[@p0='?', @p1='?', @p2='?'], CommandType='Text', CommandTimeout='30']
      INSERT INTO "tag" ("id", "description", "name")
      VALUES (@p0, @p1, @p2);
Npgsql.PostgresException (0x80004005): 23505: duplicate key value violates unique constraint "tag_pkey"
   at Npgsql.NpgsqlConnector.<DoReadMessage>d__157.MoveNext()
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
   at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()
   at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)
   at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter`1.GetResult()
   at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.ValueTaskAwaiter`1.GetResult()
   at Npgsql.NpgsqlConnector.<ReadMessage>d__156.MoveNext()

As you can see Entity Framework tries to send id=0 value to the DB, but there is already a record with id=0 in my DB and that's why it throws duplicate key error.

I didn't find any answer so far and my question is: how can I get rid of this error and tell Entity Framework that my id column is auto-incremented and there is no need to update it?

You have to use here "ValueGenerationOnAdd()". As the issue you are getting is already reported on GitHub. Please find the below link.

https://github.com/npgsql/Npgsql.EntityFrameworkCore.PostgreSQL/issues/73

You can find more info regarding Generated Value pattern from following link.

Value generated on add

public classs SampleContext:DBContext{
public DbSet<Tag> Tag { get; set; }

protected override void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder modelBuilder){
    modelBuilder.Entity<Tag>()
        .Property(p => p.ID)
        .ValueGeneratedOnAdd();
 }
public class Tag{
  public int Id { get; set; }
  public string Name { get; set; }
  public string Description{get;set;}
  }
}

Source:- https://www.learnentityframeworkcore.com/configuration/fluent-api/valuegeneratedonadd-method

Hope this will help