Branch: refs/heads/master Home: https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-orm Commit: 349bd2649c0859e63234aa3a4e4046abe5357172 https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-orm/commit/349bd2649c0859e63234aa3... Author: Guillaume Smet <guillaume.smet(a)gmail.com&gt; Date: 2018-08-01 (Wed, 01 Aug 2018) Changed paths: M hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/engine/internal/BatchFetchQueueHelper.java Log Message: ----------- HHH-12835 In the end, remove the assertion It's not really compatible with batch loading, padding and a couple of other corner cases. And I don't think it has a lot of value by itself. **NOTE:** This service has been marked for deprecation: https://developer.github.com/changes/2018-04-25-github-services-deprecation/ Functionality will be removed from GitHub.com on January 31st, 2019.