As Chris eloquently stated on the PR I also have a hard time validating why this change is necessary. Also, realize that this contract is going to be (already locally) superseded in 6.0. On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 10:47 AM Vlad Mihalcea <mihalcea.vlad(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > Hi, > > While reviewing this Pull Request: > > https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-orm/pull/1842 > > I came to realize that we can't merge it as-is since it will break > backward > compatibility. > However, we can have the user opt for this behavior, in which case we can > break it. > > Let me know if there is someone disagreeing with my proposal. > > Vlad > _______________________________________________ > hibernate-dev mailing list > hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev >