If you set those restrictions on the queried entities you are definitely right, the quried entities should be filtered accordingly and not the relations.

But if i filter the relations i actually want them to be filtered (for good reasons). Fetching the relations afterwards is not an acceptable solution as it triggers extra queries. Please take a look at my forum post describing a "real life" problem:
https://forum.hibernate.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1022948

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