Branch: refs/heads/5.3 Home: https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-orm Commit: c9de4b8ce7b00f8fd7aeeef051959c803a82bd0f https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-orm/commit/c9de4b8ce7b00f8fd7aeeef... 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.