I'm a little torn on exactly how this setting should work. Specifically should this force all secondary tables to be non-optional, even if the user explicitly configured them to be optional? Or should it only affect secondary tables where the user did not explicitly say?

Either answer covers the JPA TCK case btw. Because explicitly specifying optional/non requires Hibernate-specific metadata, the TCK is obviously not going to have explicitly defined these.

Andrea Boriero Chris Cranford Gail Badner?