We have a use case to set the flag hibernate.discriminator.ignore_explicit_for_joined to true. Unfortunately we have code we can't change that uses inconsistent DiscriminatorValue's.

It seems that when hibernate.jdbc.batch_size is > 0 and hibernate.discriminator.ignore_explicit_for_joined is true, the data for the a subclass of InheritanceType.JOINED does not get saved.

I tried upgrading to 5.3.16.Final due to the fix of HHH-12968 Closed , but it did not solve my problem.

Our codebase uses hibernate 5.2.18.Final, but i created a unit test within our application to test over hibernate versions. It works as expected with hibernate 5.2.14.Final, and seems to be fixed in 5.4.10.Final.
I added a testcase derived from the template, trying to isolate the problem as much as possible.

The testcase passes with hibernate 5.4.10.Final and fails with versions between 5.2.18.Final and 5.4.10.Final.
The testcase also passes if either hibernate.discriminator.ignore_explicit_for_joined is set to false or hibernate.jdbc.batch_size is set to 0.

Due to the fact we use some external code we unfortunately can't upgrade to hibernate 5.3. In our osgi module there is a bundle dependency on org.hibernate.core bundle and this seems to have been moved to org.hibernate.orm.core).