Jonathan Halliday yeah but even in the 1 result case, we're supposed to initialize the proxy. We call executeLoad(EntityInfo) which then calls ObjectLoaderHelper.load which in turn tries to initialize the proxy with HibernateHelper.initialize.

So I would expect the proxies to be initialized in both cases.

Can you work on a reproducible test case so that we can check what is happening? Even if it's a test case with 5.5.4.Final. We have a test case template here if it might help: https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-test-case-templates/tree/master/search/hibernate-search-lucene .

Thanks!