Other dialects differentiate the different DBMS version by providing a dedicated dialect class. For HSQL this is not the case. In fact the dialect behaves different depending on what version of the HSQL library is on the classpath (none / 1.8 or 2.x).

In particular for blobs/largevarbinaries this has an impact on schema level. I regard the dialects should be independent from what additional libs are on the classpath and therefore would like to request the HSQLDialect to be split.

Regards,
Karsten