Using Laravel migrations with AWS Redshift database

I am using Laravel 5.3. I can connect successfully to my Redshift database.

However I discovered that the Laravel migrations feature does not work with Redshift because Laravel creates a 'migration' table within the schema which has a 'serial' type column. Redshift does not support the 'serial' type.

[Illuminate\Database\QueryException]
SQLSTATE[0A000]: Feature not supported: 7 ERROR: Column "migrations.id" has unsupported type "serial". (SQL: create table "migrations" ("id" serial primary key not null, "migration" varchar(255) not null, "batch" integer not null))

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SQLSTATE[0A000]: Feature not supported: 7 ERROR: Column "migrations.id" has unsupported type "serial".

Is there anyway around this so that I can use migrations with Redshift?

via Chebli Mohamed