[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Closed: (HHH-2667) 'illegal attempt to dereference collection' when using auto-join

'illegal attempt to dereference collection' when using auto-join ---------------------------------------------------------------- Key: HHH-2667 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-2667 Project: Hibernate3 Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: 3.2.3, 3.2.4, 3.2.4.sp1 Environment: I have found that behaviour in version 3.2.4.sp1 and 3.2.3 (I didn't test 3.2.4 pre sp1) Database: ORACLE 10g Reporter: Martin Kouba After upgrading to the latest Hibernate version I got this error. I try to use a statement like this from cat c where c.mate.id = 13 the expected resulting SQL should be something like SELECT * FROM CAT C WHERE C.MATE_ID = 13 which is much more performant than making a join from cat c join c.mate m where m.id = 13 which would result in something like that SELECT * FROM CAT C INNER JOIN MATE M ON C.MATE_ID = M.ID WHERE M.ID = 13 This works as expected in 3.1.3, 3.2.0 and 3.2.2 It doesn't work with version 3.2.3 and with 3.2.4.sp1.